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Re: Alpha Team Equipment
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Thu, 26 Oct 2000 03:00:11 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2001, Marc Leidy writes:
As a designer on the "Alpha Team" project, I'm responsible for the "walking • TV"
set -- the basic idea is that it's supposed to be the way you ask for help (as
opposed to a "help button").

I was sitting in my office one day working on the game and thought "hey, how
cool would it be if we had a walking TV set? It seemed like a more "mini-fig"
solution to the "help screen" problem.

<blink blink>

Are you serious, or is this some kind of esoteric joke?

If you *are* serious, I have a question for you:  Does this imply that a
certain amount of the Alhpa Team line was driven by the computer game?  If so,
how much?

eric



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  Re: Alpha Team Equipment
 
When I started working on the computer game over a year ago, there was no "Alpha Team" to speak of, in fact, the game was called something different entirely, and the characters in the game were VERY different. The idea at the time was that the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.year.2001)

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  Re: Alpha Team Equipment
 
As a designer on the "Alpha Team" project, I'm responsible for the "walking TV" set -- the basic idea is that it's supposed to be the way you ask for help (as opposed to a "help button"). I was sitting in my office one day working on the game and (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.year.2001)

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