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From: tqhoang@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Toan Q. Hoang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: RE: WHY NO ARCADE GAMES?  WHY ARE YOU SO LATE?
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Date: 14 Jun 90 05:24:29 GMT
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I happened to like arcade games also.  But after reading a few article (mostly
simulators and strategy games) I didn't have much interest in reading more 
about it.  I always have an interest in playing arcade games.  The first game
machine I got was Atari 2600, then Atari 800XL, then Commodore 64, and now
the Amiga 500, mostly because of the improvement of the graphics.  During these fe
few years with all of these game machines I still go out to arcade and play
a few games or two, just because I could never find these games on the computer.
Maybe I used to play games in the arcade and always have and always excited
to grab the joystick while playing the games, I just never have the patience
to sit for hour to read the text and follow through the map.  I always find
that I have more fun game when I have the Commodore 64 than with the Amiga
500 because you don't find much simulator or strategy games in the C64.
For example, if I want to play football, I want to play something that I
can MOVE, RUN, PASS in fast action, rather than thepick your option type.
Like TV SPORT FOOTBALL, you choose your plan, then start and when you want
to throw you stop and turn left or right before you pass.  It's just not as
fun to move slow like that (BUt the graphic is good but only if it's faster).
I don't understand how can Flight simulator be fun, you fly around do
a lot of stuff to change altitude, or whatever, but what is so fun about it?
A know a lot of people like Flight Simulator, so one time I told my friend to
show me something about it.  He said "this is pretty fun, you can fly almost
like a real pilot, and see thing almost like 3D", I said "that's pretty nice, b
but do you have something I can play with the joystick and thing I can explore."
I find games like BATTLE SQUADRON, SUPER MARIO BROS( not on Amiga), Old classic
like GALAGA, MERC(arcade) are fun, but not ULTIMA, FLIGHT SIMULATOR, MORIA, or
BARD'S TALE.  If I want strategy games, I would take my chess set and game
board out and start playing with someone.  But these are only in my opinion.

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Toan Hoang