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Santa Fragged a Fiend (11/23/97)
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Hey, there are only thirty more shopping days before Christmas, but there's no need to panic: the Macintosh Entertainment Software Alliance (MESA) has teamed up with Apple to make it a little easier to decide what to get for the Mac-enabled folks on your list. Head over to Computer Retail Week to read about MESA's "Buy Two, Get One Free" deal.

Basically, it works like this: Just buy two Mac games from a list of the greatest titles available this season, and you can get a third for free by mail. So you can buy Quake for little Johnny, Duke Nukem 3D for your godson-- and get Shadow Warrior for yourself, for free. Sounds like a good deal to us.

By the way, odds are that you've got a PC-user or three on your list. Check out this little strategy we just used: One of the games on the MESA list is Bungie's groundbreaking 3D real-time strategy game Myth: The Fallen Lords, which is guaranteed to be one of the hottest games this holiday season. Though there are separate Windows and Mac boxes, the contents of those boxes are identical (with the exception of a coupon for some platform-specific hardware). That means that the Mac version of Myth will work just fine on a Windows machine. So why not buy Mac Myth for your PC-using friends? It counts as a Mac software sale, which helps the Mac software industry. Do your part. ;-)

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/23/97 episode:

November 23, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 205: YA-Conspiracy (11/23/97)   ZDNet's getting in on the conspiracy/speculation game. Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings opine that an Apple/Oracle merger (now heavily denied by both companies) would make a lot of sense in the grand scheme of things...

  • 206: Losing Proposition (11/23/97)   And while we're talking about rampant speculation, let's spend a moment on the Apple Recon article which discusses the possibility of a Mac port of Windows 98. Yes, they warn again and again that it's just an unconfirmed rumor, but it's an interesting idea...

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