On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 05:16:01PM -0500, Mark Wieczorek wrote:

> Anyone post to a BBS or call Datasoft for help? I think I finally solved Zork
> III in the late 1990's, thanks in part, to the Internet. I think games are
> less fun because of the Internet. If I don't get a puzzle I don't spend quite
> as much time on it as I would've otherwise. I just go look it up.

Oh yeah, I know that really well myself. I breeze through SNES RPGs
quickly these days, sometimes going to read a FAQ halfway through a
game because I'm stuck.

The wide availability of FAQs is definitely part of it. Another thing
I think though, is the amount of free time available these days. I'm a
lot busier than I used to be, and I think this is may be true of many
others as well. I don't have so much time to spend figuring out
puzzles. :(

-Philip Mak (pmak--aaanime.net)