From: swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet Marie Swisher)
Subject: CULTURE: After Battletech
Date: 8 Mar 1992 01:15:56 -0600
Message-ID: <krjfpcINNd4l@boogie.cs.utexas.edu>
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin



In article <1992Feb29.222455.12360@u.washington.edu> Peter Fraterdeus
<pfraterdeus@igc.org> writes:

>Regarding the Battletech Center debate...
>
>The most likely counter for "killing games" will be learning games.
>
>Education that challenges like a good old game of Pong (remember?), but
>enriches with rich references to vast encylopediae of accessable
>information....

Absolutely.  "Where in <whatever> is Carmen Sandiego?" is such a huge
hit, even spawning a TV show, that a VR version seems a logical next
step.  That would be right up the alley Peter describes.