From: kaminsky@tatertot.com (Daniel Kaminsky)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video,alt.games.lynx
Subject: Re: Market Forces and the Lynx
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:43:38 GMT
Organization: Tater Tot News & Mail, San Francisco, CA

rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser) writes:

> 
> 
>    Although I no longer own a Lynx, I still like to browse through     
> alt.games.lynx every once in awhile for the heck of it. And every time
> there's the usual string of messages slamming Atari for their horrible
> marketing and calling for a letter writing campaign to Toys R Us for
> their poor Lynx support. A recent message suggested this campaign be
> extended to Software Etc. The underlying theme of these messages seems to
> be that the Lynx is an amazing machine that masses of people want to buy,
> but that Toys R Us and Software Etc (and many other retailers) won't let
> them.
> 
>      Well, I don't know. At the risk of enraging the Lynx loyalists, can
> I say that it's rather pathetic to have to launch a letter writing campaign
> to save your system? Atari places a two page ad in the newspaper and everyone
> on alt.games.lynx goes wild with excitement...isn't this a little sad?
> I mean, come on, guys. I'm starting to get depressed from reading alt.games.
> lynx. It's nothing but teary-eyed demands to write letters to save the Lynx,
> anecdotes about the ignorance of Toys R Us staff and the apathy of Atari
> employees, and moans and groans about how undersupported and downright 
> DOOMED the Lynx is.
> 
>     You certainly don't hear such things from Game Gear, GameBoy (ugh) or
> TurboExpress owners.
> 
>     So how about we let market forces (that ugly right-wing term...I can't
> believe a liberal like myself would use it!) deal with the Lynx. If Toys R
> Us and Software Etc. aren't selling it, could I politely suggest that's
> because it's no longer selling? Do we really need to bombard them with 
> letters demanding they stock the shelves with an unpopular product?
> 
>     I really liked my Lynx. Honestly I did. I only ditched it because I
> preferred the games Sega had to offer on their Game Gear. But I'll be honest
> here: some of the tripe being posted about the Lynx is starting to make me
> lose respect for the machine. There are suggestions about Atari's total
> incompetence, endless tirades about the Lynx's utter superiority to the
> Game Gear, and allegations that Toys R Us is involved in a big conspiracy
> to sink the Lynx, which Nintendo and Sega recognize as a genuine threat.
> 
>     Uh, I know I'm going out on a limb here, but maybe, just maybe, the
> Lynx isn't that great a machine. Maybe, just maybe, that's why it isn't
> selling. And maybe, again, just maybe, that's why Toys R Us and Software
> Etc. are backing down.
> 
>     Or are the Lynxites going to blame Nintendo and Sega for the Kennedy
> assassination as well?
>  
> -- 
> Richard J. Rauser        "You have no idea what you're doing."
> rauser@sfu.ca            "Oh, don't worry about that. We're professional
> WNI                          outlaws - we do this for a living."
> -----------------
> "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." -Dr.Banzai

About toys R us: DO NOT BUY VIDEO GAMES FROM THEM, PERIOD. Not only are 
they overpriced, but they will (for fear of 10000 flame messages from a 
so called moderator) "twist" you over worse than The Good Guys(another 
story, dont shop there either). My friend bought a Lynx game there, and 
it was a disaster. They forgot to mention that the game was used. By a 
sadistic madman. The manual was a mess, the INSIDE(not outside) looked 
horrid, the sticker on the game was half off, and the game ITSELF didnt 
work. Ouch. All good guys did was stiff us for 10%.
Later,
        Gasman

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