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From: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple IIgs or IIe/c/c+ 'arcade' games
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.210204.1601@ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 90 21:02:04 GMT
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Reply-To: seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)
Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering
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In article <9007091839.AA14034@apple.com> lwv27%cas.BITNET%CAS@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU writes:
>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?

I have Task Force, which is an excellent GS arcade shoot-'em-up.
It's violent, but very well done.  I like it! :-)  From the same
programmer who did the Sword of Sodan game demo.

There's a game from Broderbund's Kyodai division called "Ancient Land
of Ys".  They import promising Japanese games...this one is of the
"explore the kingdom with your little dude, bypass the nasty monsters,
solve the puzzles" variety.  I haven't played it myself, but it
was a fairly popular topic on America Online's Game Forum a few months
ago.

Xenocide is another GS arcade game that has received much praise on
its speed and animation.  It's not quite the Nintendo format, but
it might be what you're looking for.  It's from the Greenstone/Triplett
team (Pangea Software) that brought you the 24hour Games, Senseless Violence
and most lately the Cosmocade demo.

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