In your review of air game Doomdark (issue 93) you say we are cashing in with our Icemark chart; actually we are not.
To obtain a map of the Icemark, Mike had to write a special program. That took time and he couldn't do it until the game was finished. As he didn't finish the game until the day before we went to duplication we were obliged to put a pretty picture on theback of the rules - pretty, but no help to anyone; so the map seemed like a good alternative.
We produced the illustration and had the map printed and produced in one week flat (delivered on December 21), and kept the price to £1.95. If I gave it to our mail order fulfilment hosue, they would charge me £1 handling per item, so we would end up making nothing at all.
To hold costs further I spent Christmas Eve, and the two days after Christmas stuffing maps into envelopes. We've sold over 1,000 to date, and people are now asking us for Midnight maps. So there.
We are going to be producing more add-ons like the map. I hope to get a Midnight map out in February.
19th January 1985
