Subj : Anyone home?
To : Neil Walker
From : Joe Siegler
Date : Tue Jan 28 2003 01:42 am
NW> Hello Joe!
NW> Saturday January 18 2003 01:52, you wrote to me:
NW>>> Castle Wolfenstein was an Atari game that iD Software used as
NW>>> the basis for Wolfenstein 3D. This was iD's first-generation 3D
NW>>> software that led to the ground-breaking Doom. The rest is
NW>>> history. ;-)
JS>> *COUGH*.
JS>> It was an Apple // game originally. ;)
NW> If you want to be pedantic, yes, it was released for the Apple II
NW> in 1981 whereas the Atari version was released in 1982 (and CBM
NW> 64 in 1983, PC in 1984). ;-)
NW> BUT, the Apple II was very expensive and not a great success
NW> outside the US and the Atari version of the game is better known.
NW> ;-)
I disagree with that last statement. I think the game is an Apple // game, and
I don't think I'm being pedantic about it.
