Runaway: A Road Adventure both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. "Runaway" was a commercial hit, with sales above 400,000 units in Europe alone by early January 2004, before its release in the United Kingdom. At the time, publisher Crimson Cow told "MCV" that this success "prov[ed] that the adventure genre is not just a living but also a thriving genre". According to designer Rafael Latiegui, the game sold best in France and Germany, and in Spain achieved sales of "100,000 units in just one weekend as part of a newspaper campaign." He noted in February 2004 that the game "hasn't done
Cow Country (novel) Pynchon. Nate Jones at "Vulture" argued against Pynchon's authorship; he contacted Penguin Books directly and was reportedly told: "We are Thomas Pynchon's publisher and this is not a book by Thomas Pynchon." David Marks at "Writer's Quarterly" drew on certain consistencies to argue that the work is that of short story writer Jacob M. Appel, noting particularly certain thematic similarities between the novel and Appel's "Einstein's Beach House", published within six months of "Cow Country". Marks observed that the website "cowcountry.com" had previously been registered under the name "J. Appel." Laura Well speculates that the novel is actually a collective