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From: jsp@key.COM (James Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Games for SE30
Keywords: games SE30 entertainment
Message-ID: <946@key.COM>
Date: 21 Jul 89 23:39:07 GMT
References: <2863@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: jsp@penguin.key.COM (James Preston)
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In article <2863@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> gavin@mit-caf.UUCP (Gavin C. H. Zau) writes:
>
>	I have purchased a SE30 and am interested in purchasing
>some games for it.  However, I am concern that some games might
>not be compatible to the SE30.  Does anyone know which games 
>work?  Also can anyone recommend some good games?  If there
>is interest, I'll summarize the response as a games survey.
>Thanks.

Games that work just fine on my SE/30:

Solitaire Royale    Recommended
PT 109              Highly recommended
The Colony          Interesting graphics, but the game is damned annoying
Mean 18             Highly recommended
Phraze Craze (AKA Wheel of Fortune; shareware)
1000 Miles (AKA Mille Bornes; shareware)
Crystal Quest       Some people love it, I find the only-shoot-in-the-direction-
                    you-move to be annoying, and the difficulty increase to be
                    too steep.
Beyond Dark Castle  However you feel about Dark Castle, you'll feel the
                    same about this.
Fool's Errand       Great of you like puzzles, a waste otherwise.
Racquetball         Most interesting in two player mode (requires two networked
                    Macs)
SLOTS               (The old public domain one with keno where you have
                    to reset the Mac to exit)
missile command     (public domain)


Games that do not work:

Falcon 2.0 (As has been noted, Spectrum Holobyte knows, and has been working
            on a fix for over three months).
Arkanoid (Again, Discovery Software knows and plans a patched version
          "sometime soon".)
Dark Castle
Gato
Cairo Shootout    (public domain)


Games that mostly work:
Orbiter  Everything is fine, except it won't talk!  I thought the problem
         was with my version of MacinTalk, but I have a demo hyperstack
         that talks just fine.

--James Preston