Subj : Soviets preferred Atari over Commodore To : All From : Tristan Miller Date : Tue Aug 18 2020 09:22 am Dear all, I recently happened upon this RIA Novosti article from 2013 that tells a fascinating story about Epyx and their contact with representatives of the Soviet government: According to the article, in 1984 the folks at Epyx decided to provide the USSR with a copy of the newly released Summer Games, joking that it would allow the Soviets some measure of vicarious participation during their boycott that year of the real-life Olympics. So the company sent a package containing several copies of the Commodore 64 edition to the Soviet Embassy in Washington. A week later they unexpectedly received a reply from the Embassy thanking Epyx for the games but lamenting that they couldn't play them because all they had were Atari computers! Epyx swiftly dispatched another package containing the Atari editions but alas never heard back from the Embassy. Regards, Tristan -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tristan Miller Free Software developer, ferret herder, logologist https://logological.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .