Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news
From: rs108@mdx.ac.uk (Robert Swan)
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Four way adapter
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:32:09 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
Lines: 34
Message-ID: <350aa03f.4404800@news.playstation.co.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: stu-dialup3.mdx.ac.uk
X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235

This is a request for something new from sony to add to our libraries.
I'm very happy with everything we have except our lack of support for
the four joypad adapter. This isn't a whinge, hopefully its a
constructive post stating why it would be of huge benefit to yaroze
members and worth the time and effort of Sony to give us such a thing.

I think its safe to say without upsetting everyone that we do not have
the time (and in some cases ability!) to produce games with the
sophistication and maybe depth that a full time software house can.
This leads us in the direction of producing smaller and simpler games;
games that can only benefit from more than one player owing to the
fact that programming AI in computer opponents is pretty hard. As a
case in point, I'll take James Rutherford's  Snowball fight game. It's
brilliant fun and I love it, but what it really cries out for is to
have more than two players. A four player fight would elevate the game
(as it would all games) a hundred percent. My personal view is that
multiplayer games are the way forward (either on one computer or
internet or whatever) and its more satisfying than playing a computer.

I'm still going to go ahead with my plans for a couple of four player
games, which leads to everyone using half of a joypad. Because
multiplayer games are cool, most people will suffer this, but it would
be nice if they had the choice of seperate pads. (and also leads to
the possibilty of eight player games with sharing four joypads!)

Maybe this wasn't such a persuasive post, but It's the thing highest
on my wish list (indeed only thing). 

Yours hopefully,
Robert Swan
rs108@mdx.ac.uk
http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~middex2

Ill write to Jim'll fix it if it doesn't happen :)