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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: 14 Jul 90 20:25:52 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from greg@hoss.unl.edu

> I've heard about this Xenocide game, and from what I've seen of another 
> from the same source (can't think of the name, but it resembles the 
arcade 
> game Blasteroids) I'm thinking of getting it. 
 
I think you're talking about orbizone...  Xenocide is much better.  There are
a couple levels that are completely different.  There is one where you are
flying your hovercraft over a 3-d landscape blasting the alien monsters and
picking up supplies, while they actually splatter on your windshield and block
your vision if you hit them.  Then there is the "caves" mode which reminds me
a lot of "caves of Olympus" or "Thexder", and an underwater caves which has
other interesting problems.   Then there is the overhead view segment, much
like bilestoad view or Victory Road or Alien mind.  So it's about 4 games in
one.
 
> Meanwhile, a game to avoid would be Gauntlet GS. 
 
Generally accepted, I believe, as one of the worst GS games ever published... 
Although serve and volley was also quite pitiful.

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