Yes, that was me who wrote it and yes, you definitely remember the game. The MM "algorithm" for casting and box office was that either really great or really terrible (ie. it's so bad it's good) matches for actors/roles made the most money. Anything in between resulted in so-so revenue.
I also wrote the non-BBS door game Wilderness Survival for MS-DOS, which was pretty popular in the late 80s too (anyone else remember playing it?). I still have the code and executables for that. Lost the code for MM.
I actually wrote a BBS game called Movie Madness in the late 80s that was somewhat popular on Atari ST BBS systems. You purchased scripts, cast movie stars, spent money on production and marketing and watched how much money it made each week.
Then the Academy Awards would be held and if your movie did or was cast well, you could win an Oscar and make more money (and then the whole game started over with you being able to hire better actors, spend more money, etc). A bit different than the usual fare.
Honestly, I (and 99.999999999% of the population) completely forgot about that game until I read this article.
The iPhone/iPod Touch only runs one application at a time and that seems to work fine for a majority of users (ie. the ones that aren't screaming for push functionality).
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I also wrote the non-BBS door game Wilderness Survival for MS-DOS, which was pretty popular in the late 80s too (anyone else remember playing it?). I still have the code and executables for that. Lost the code for MM.
Chris
Then the Academy Awards would be held and if your movie did or was cast well, you could win an Oscar and make more money (and then the whole game started over with you being able to hire better actors, spend more money, etc). A bit different than the usual fare.
Honestly, I (and 99.999999999% of the population) completely forgot about that game until I read this article.
Chris
P.S. Was also a big Galactic Empire fan too!
You call THIS a GLITCH?!
BP will also be responsible for the Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505.
Now how I am going to view Gorgor's links on FARK without Greasemonkey? Wait, that might be a good thing...
John Carpenter, not James Cameron.
QUARK! GARBAGE! Having Betty I and Betty II around made up for it...
Starring Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln.
...and don't fucking enter another one like it again.
I didn't know Ballmer owned an iPhone.
Vegas baby!
More IT Pros Could Turn To E-Crime In Poor Economy?
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And we don't want to pay taxes. Ever.
...and we would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids and their dog!
The iPhone/iPod Touch only runs one application at a time and that seems to work fine for a majority of users (ie. the ones that aren't screaming for push functionality).
That's what they say about incest.
This is nonsense. I was a well liked, productive developer at Microsoft.
I don't like you.
Great initiative, but you are an ITIL nightmare.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Silence, you ninny!
"One-fifth of the people are against everything all of the time." Robert F. Kennedy
Welcome to that 20%.
will i am agrees!
"He hates these space elevators!"
There's no such thing as a stupid question...only stupid people who ask questions...
What, Bill O'Reilly is interviewing storm chasers? Are they liberals?