Re: OT: Bad B5 Sim news.

Oh man!  I was eagerly waiting for this!  Fooy!  Cowards!

It would have been so cool.

Donald Hosford

"Mark A. Siefert" wrote:

> Hello all:
>
>	  Everyone remember that Sierra was going to a Babylon 5 space
combat
> simulator with realistic physics models for movenment and fantastic
> graphics of nearly every ship in the B5 pantheon?
>
>	  Well in case you haven't heard, you can forget about it. 
Sierra has
> just announce that they are splitting up their company into three
> subsidaries and they are going to be scrapping B5 along with a few
other
> projects.  The company said these games did not meet its "success
> criteria."  (WHAT?!?!?)  Sierra news structure will allow them come
out
> with a new bass fishing game and a championchip bull riding program.
>
>	  First Crusade get's screwed by TNT, then Sleeping in Light
loses the
> Hugo to The Truman Show (errrrr... I thought that the Hugo was an
award
> for science ficton, not vehicles for bad comedians), and now this.  It
> has not been a good year for Babylon 5.
>
> --
> Later,
> Mark A. Siefert