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From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Walt's Picks for best games.
Keywords: good games IMHO
Message-ID: <1264@nyx.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 90 03:38:57 GMT
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In article <9468@rouge.usl.edu> wakres01@pa.usl.edu (1712 Stelly John B) writes:
>Shadow of the Beast - I think this is probably the best arcade game I have 
>ever played on the Amiga.  Unfortunately I had to put my copy back on the 

I kept hearing so much hype about this game I finally went down to a store
and watched the demo.  I saw very little that was at all impressive about it.
I STILL don't see what the big deal is; it looks very ordinary to me.  Perhaps
I missed something.  

>X-OUT - Nice looking Horizontal-scrolling shoot-em-up.  I can't get anywhere
>in this D*MN game though.  At the end of the first level, this huge guy wipes
>me out.

I can't figure this game out.  It's been showing up on local boards (non-pirate)
but no one knows whether it's shareware or PD or commercial or what.  It has
no docs at all; you'd not know it was named XOut if the lhwarp file wasn't
named Xout.lhw... yet if it was commercial I'd think it would have more than
ONE LEVEL.  That's right; I have gotten past the last guy though normally I 
don't spend much time on games, especially ones like this, and it just pops 
you right back into the ship editor.  Build another ship and you go out into
the first screen again.


For what it does, StarGlider II is one of the most impressive games graphically
that I've ever seen.  Sure, it's old, but most people don't even realize 
what's going on inside.  True, realtime 3-D filled polygon solids, fast update
and ALL with no help whatever from the blitter or any other custom chip.  It's
a shame that it's no longer made, but I hear the author did quite well by it.

Also Stunt Track Racer is very very good.  I just wish I had the time for it.

.                           <<<<Infinite K>>>>

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