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From: ins624y@monu3.cc.monash.edu.au (mr  r.   walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: New Games (Treasure Trap)
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Date: 13 Jul 90 12:18:34 GMT
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In article <3416@crash.cts.com> spierce@pnet01.cts.com (Stuart Pierce) writes:
>I'm itching to buy a new Amiga game, and I've seen several recently that look
>interesting: Spherical, The Plague, Escape From the Planet of the Robot
>Monsters, Klax, and Treasure Trap.
>Any reviews of these games (and any other new games) would be appreciated.

Well, I recently purchased a copy of Treasure Trap.  It is a professionally executed product (ie. not a dog like Pacland (== direct IBM port) or Flying Shark (==direct ST port==no blitter use==no quick, smooth scrolling).  

Basically, you wonder through the rooms of a sunken ship, collecting gold bars and oxygen cylinders (to stay alive), avoiding resident nasties like magnetic mines, jellyfish etc etc.

The game is well worth buying --- has a nifty "boppy" rap soundtrack and is hard to fault, except for:
(1) the palette used seems rather limited (ie. not many colours on screen)
(2) seems extrodinarily fond of keyboard control, but this works well.   
I am not saying this is a ***GREAT*** same (like Dragon's Breath, Xenon II, X Out), but it still is very playable --- you do not feel "ripped off" after slapping down your sheckels on the counter.  But it has I ****OUTSTANDING***** feature:
I have a 1 meg A500.  When booting, the game told me something like "0.5 MB Extra Ram Detected --- Building Ram Disk".  Then, when the game has loaded, it executes ENTIRELY from Ram (ie no slow, aggravating drive access), unless you want to save the highscores (you are prompted for this).  It this a sign of things to come????  Bretheren, Amigans, Comrades, let us bow our heads in devout prayer...
PS.  If you want an INCREDIBLE RPG and have >=1MB, try Amiga Moria 3.0 (Fish Disk 194[?]) --- I've played for literally HUNDREDS of hours.  Better (much) than Hack, Larn etc (but maybe not Omega 1.3)