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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: Re: Low Blow from Apple/Rescue Raiders GS
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Date: 22 Sep 90 07:09:26 GMT
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In article <90Sep20.184036edt.57412@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> macausla@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Robert MacAusland) writes:
>What was Rescue Raiders anyway?  I don't ever remember seeing the
>][e version...

	Rescue Raiders is/was probably one of the BEST games ever
for the // (pre GS) series.. Actually it is one of the best games
for the // series period, including the GS..  Hopefully Rescue Raiders
GS (with AppleTalk support and other improvements included in the Mac
version) will be even better!

	Rescue Raiders used some of the same graphics as Choplifter
(you HAVE to remember choplifter if you've been in the // world for a 
while!)..

	In Rescue Raiders you had a helicopter and were on the right end
of a big scrolling playfield.. You sent out vans, jeeps that shot 
missiles, tanks, fighters and electricians (and maybe a few things I
forgot).  The computer did the same types of things you did from the left
end. You had to capture the other end.. I believe by having a demolition
van reach the far left of the playfield..  Then you'd go on to the
next round.. I believe that you were theoretically fighting different
battles of WWII or something.. Or maybe you had new style weapons against
the WWII people.. I forget for sure.  Doesn't this sound fun on AppleTalk
against other people? [The only game -I- know of that plays over AppleTalk
is NetTrek.. Seems that should be exploited more in the Mac & GS world.
A few people I've known have taken their Macs over to my house to play
NetTrek [me using my mom's Mac].. IT's very fun. We need NetTrek GS now!]

	Enough rambling for now.. except one more thing. I feel that the
people in Rescue Raiders and Choplifter are AMAZING! They seem SO realistic
yet they're so small and use so few pixels.. Oh yeah.. I think the people in
Lode Runner are the same too. (the demo for Lode Runner GS too)
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