At 3:20 pm +0000 19/2/99, The Mad Goose wrote: I have to say I disagree with some of these, but - well I would, wouldn't I?
Oh bother, did I not get around to putting the "Second Opinion" stuff back online? Whoops I'd better go sort that out. >2.1.1 The Good ASTROBALL - Astonishingly simple 'bounce to the top of >the screen' game which is just brilliant Gimme a linebreak! Please, it's not much to ask... >DYZONIUM ... EXODUS ... FOOTBALL LEAGUE MANAGER ... HEXAGONIA ... > IMPATIENCE - Another puzzler - a > version of Mah Jong that utilised the SAM Mouse! You liked this? Seriously? >LEGEND OF ESHAN ... LEMMINGS ... MANIC MINER ... PRINCE OF PERSIA ... >STRATOSPHERE ... T.N.T ... >WOP GAMMA - Boulderdash, basically. Excellent graphics, great >gameplay, but perhaps a little too hard. Not. Wop Gamma is to boulderdash, what some poor imitation is to a real thing. Great graphics and music yes. But the controls are abysmal and the gravity doesn't work properly. The only difficulty comes from it being far too fast, the puzzles are nothing to write home about. > WATERWORKS - A fiendish >puzzle-come-arcade romp. It's worth persevering with. WATERWORKS 2 - >Even harder than the original, and even better. Well - I'd never recommend buying WaterWorks2, because *no-one I know can complete level three* so you're paying a tenner (or whatever) for just the first three levels! Unless you hack it, like I did, but that's cheating. But you're quite right, the original was a *top* game. NB. Anybody know where Martin Bell actually is these days? >2.1.2 The Bad... BOOTY ... CRAFT ... ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF >THE ROBOT MONSTERS ... MARBLES DELUXE... PARALLAX ... SNAKEMANIA - Another >puzzle game, little >better than Public Domain software. Bit harsh, don't you think? >SOPHISTRY - What can I say about >this apart from...dull. What, are you crazy? no offense :) Admittedly it looks rather simplistic on the surface, but it goes very deep.... Craig Turberfield's music gives it a wonderful athmosphere. >SPHERA - The first SAM shoot-em-up game. >Spectrum-style graphics and repetitive gameplay. True, but still pretty playable. And certainly a lot better than Parallax! > VEGETABLE VACATION ... > >2.1.3 The Ugly... > >BATZ 'N' BALLS - Reasonable version of 'Breakout' - only really >playable with a mouse. As was Triltex to be honest, but you seemed to like that. I think Batz 'n' Balls is really good, actually. >BOING ... BOMBS AWAY ... BULGULATORS ... CASTLE ... DAYS OF SORCERY ... >DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH ... FIVE ON TREASURE ISLAND ... FOOTBALL DIRECTOR >2... GRUBBING FOR GOLD ... INVADERS ... KLAX - Ported >from the Spectrum, and it shows. Nice backgrounds, but playing area >has sexy colour clash to remind you of the old days. Yawhat? No colour clash here, matey! Cheesy shading, perhaps, but what do you expect with sixteen colours? > MONOPOLY - >1-player game where you must chastise SAM Users by calling them >'stupid demo coders'. Haha, you thought you'd get that one in unnoticed, did you? >MULTIPACK 1 - Containing SAM Strikes Out, a >very bad Collect-em-up game, and FutureBall, a bizarre puzzle game >that tries to look like Speedball, but most certainly isn't. Hey steady on, Sam Strikes Out is fun! Shallow, but fun. As for FutureBall it most certainly isn't a puzzle game, not by my usual definition anyway... > OH NO! >MORE LEMMINGS - If you like the original you'll go a bundle on this! >PIPEMANIA - Nice port of the all-formats classic So what are they doing in the "ugly" section then? >QUIZBALL ... SPLAT... THE WITCHING HOUR ... TRILTEX, >THE LATER LEVELS ... VOID What about.... Momentum? Ice Chicken? IMPosters? Amalthea? A whole load of other Jupiter games? >2.2 What utilities can I buy? > E-TRACKER - Powerful, but user >unfriendly music maker. Try ProTracker2 instead. More flexible than E-Tracker, and looks a lot nicer. > 2.3 What educational software can I buy? > > ... > Here's a non-exhaustive list. > > > I have to admit, that was pretty non-exhaustive! :) Someone ought to compile up a list of demos, too. Andrew -- | Andrew Collier | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Talk sense to a | Part 2 NatSci | http://carou.sel.cam.ac.uk/ | fool and he +----------------+-----------------------------+ calls you foolish | Selwyn College Student Computer Support Team | -- Euripides
