Rocks'n'Diamonds

Why are so many R&D fans located in Germany??

The author is from Germany.
May be first it's go from ear to ear.
And all germans play it on the C64.

And they dont talk about silly things like smilies.....

Maybe there's some german pages about the game? Just a guess though...

> And all germans play it on the C64.

Well, I'm afraid that the C64 is a platform where R'n'D will never run... ;-)

I'm not sure if there are more people from Germany playing R'n'D than from other countries... Maybe here in the forum.

The more interesting question seems to me why there was a really *huge* amount of EMC disks coming from Holland (and also quite some from Australia and England), but only very few from the USA, for example. But maybe that's simply because Emerald Mine was a game from Germany...

Are you sure that the EM disks *come* from Holland?
I thought the EMC only collect it - in a leeching way..

> Are you sure that the EM disks *come* from Holland?

Yes, quite a lot of them. The rest was at least distributed by the EMC Holland.

> I thought the EMC only collect it - in a leeching way..

That's also true, but many authors came from Holland indeed.

This is something I've also wondered about.
- Many Supaplex players come from Holland. Herman Perk and Maarten Egmond are both Dutch too.
- Most C64 Boulderdash players (and creators) were the German. I saw this when testing them for my site. This is among other things because of the Roth family (Marek, Olaf, Rolf...). And Posocopi Waldkirch. But companies like The Blockheads and No One, I'm not sure about them. You also come across them on the EMC author list.
- Most Emerald Mine Club creators are Dutch. And some are German.

The reason for this? I don't know! Maybe Boulder Dash, Emerald Mine and Supaplex were distributed more in Germany and The Netherlands? Or maybe the Boulderdash style applies most to the German and Dutch taste? Or did Western Europe, especially The Netherlands and Germany buy more C64 and Amiga computers? Is it because the American only like very 'real' games and that they therefore didn't it play it as much?
Or do the German and the Dutch have more spare time to play it? Well, maybe the last is true, as Germany as well as The Netherlands are both well-developed countries and both are rich (and too lazy to work... )

HerzAusGold wrote:The author is from Germany.
May be first it's go from ear to ear.

If that were true, Holger probably would know.

> Or did Western Europe, especially The Netherlands and Germany buy
> more C64 and Amiga computers?

Could be true! For example, when the C64 was big in Germany, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was very popular in England! Therefore, Spectrum games very most popular in England, too...

> Is it because the American only like very 'real' games and that they
> therefore didn't it play it as much?

Also possible... The time Europe played Amiga arcade style games, many people in the U.S. preferred flight simulations on crappy PCs (XT and AT, for example) instead... No wonder: These days, the Amiga had digital joysticks best suited for action games, while the PC had analog joysticks, best suited for flight simulation. :-)

> Or do the German and the Dutch have more spare time to play it? Well,
> maybe the last is true, as Germany as well as The Netherlands are both
> well-developed countries and both are rich (and too lazy to work... Smile )

Probably true... ;-) ;-)