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From: rond@pro-grouch.cts.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple IIgs or IIe/c/c+ 'arcade' games
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Date: 11 Jul 90 04:49:09 GMT
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> A co-worker has asked about recommendations for games (GS preferred,
> but others okay) which are 'Nitendo-like' .   Anyone have a list of
> games to buy and games to avoid?
>
> For instance, what about a Super Mario Brothers type?
>
>Give some of us a reason NOT to buy a Nitendo for our kids <wink>.

If you don't mind a bit of violence and bloodshed (well, death, there is no
blood), THE game for the IIgs is Task Force, one of the few i have actually
purchased after seeing it.  Incredible animation with lots of stuff and large
stuff going on (the copter is _huge_) and still it smooth scrolls, with some
very nicely drawn backgrounds.  7 or 8 types of weapons, each more destructive
and fun than the last.  Bodies fly everywhere.  If you're looking for a
Nintendo-like game, this is it, but it blows away anything a Nintendo can do.

Other suggestions... Alien Mind (also  incredible, requires some thought, but
mostly shoot-em up), Zany Golf, Warlock (really mindless shootem-up, but
good), California Games GS, Arkanoid I and II (hyper-breakout, addictive as
_hell_),  Tunnels of Armageddon (3-d tunnel shoot-em up, it'll give you
vertigo), FirePower (incredible tank game, play 2 player or 2 player over
modem),  Xenocide (lots of different stuff, a couple different games in one),
Crystal Quest (like the mac game, but better), and Orbizone (great asteroids,
$5 shareware!)

I would have to say that those are the "stars" of Apple IIgs arcade games... 
I may have forgotten one or two, but all those are excellent.

Oh yes!  It's an Apple //e game, but is good enough that even a IIgs owner
will be impressed and addicted:  Prince of Persia.

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