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From: brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shadow of the Beast
Summary: Once bitten,
Message-ID: <4979@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 89 22:31:42 GMT
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Reply-To: brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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Never having bought a Psygnosis (sp?) game before, I succumbed to
the "Shadow of the Beast" hype at Amy Expo and bought a copy.

So far, I've booted it up four times:

1) Watch intro screens, begin play.  Find and treetrunk doorway.
   Climb down ladder, mess about, then try to jump chasm.  Game
   ends and locks up.

2) Rebooting after 1):  Watch intro again, avoid treetrunk doorway, find
   wishing well. Enter.  Climb down to dead end, then climb up to find
   dead end.  Game prints out taunting "You made a mistake" message,
   and locks up.   Turn off computer in disgust.  

3) Next day, after disgust dissipates, reboot "Beast".  After inserting
   Disk #2 as per prompt, game locks up immediately in video fireworks mode,
   with attendant horrible squealing sounds on both audio channels.

4) Rebooting after 3):  Watch intro screens.  Hey, look!  It's not so boring,
   anymore!  The title screens have all kinds of garbage in them now!  Looks
   like Archon playing on a 2000!  Turn machine off.

Suspiciously, my battery-backed clock thought it was April 5, 1978, the
next time I turned my Amiga on.

My system is an Amiga 2000, with GVP hardcard, Fatter Agnes, and 2M
of expansion RAM.  I run VirusX from my startup-sequence (whenever I'm
not booting from a copy$#%$@%#protected disk, that is), and believe my
system is uninfected.

I wonder if you folks would help me conduct a survey.  If you've bought
S.O.T.B., would you drop me an e-mail reply indicating whether the product
worked for you or not?  I'll post the digested "yield" of the game.


Brian Rhodefer