From: "David E. Smith" <dsmith@midwest.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 11:01:16 +0800
To: Bruce Baugh <bruce@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: NET_run [NOISE]
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At 02:54 PM 2/19/96 -0800, bruce@aracnet wrote:

>>      Sometime next month a game will be played on the
>>      Internet, challenging surfers to leap between sites,
>>      solving puzzles and cracking codes that will give them
>>      access to secret data hidden behind firewalls and
>>      software barriers. 
>
>Netrunner is indeed a card game. As part of the intro publicity, some demo
>games will be run on the Web. (No, no info about that at the moment.) The
>rest is the intersection of overenthusiastic publicity folks and clueless
>reporters. "Go, marketing department, go" were the exact words of my friend.

Which is based on the even more cool Cyberpunk (no, not Cypherpunk, but
it seems that way in my own games) traditional role-playing game.

Actually, that's not a small percentage of why I keep up with all the
noise on this list - you get some _great_ game ideas.

<<perrygram elided>>

dave



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