Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!husc6!husc9!ehsu From: ehsu@husc9.harvard.edu (Visual Editor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple Panic Message-ID: <4302@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 29 Sep 90 20:06:50 GMT References: <37706@ut-emx.uucp> <1990Sep27.220546.25644@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: ehsu@husc9.UUCP (Visual Editor) Distribution: na Organization: Harvard University Science Center Cambridge, MA Lines: 37 In article <1990Sep27.220546.25644@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> dnelson@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Dru Nelson) writes: > How about Little Brick Out, Starblazer, Hard Hat Mack, Bandits, or > Stellar 7. They are a little more recent. My friend Roby's favorite > game is Firebug (lo-res Muse game). Steller 7 is a brilliant game. It took me a long time to beat Sir Draxon. The graphics are amazingly smooth, the font is cool and the demo sequence of rotating 3-D wire drawings is pretty awesome looking. Firebug is one of the truly great games. It got some awful score in the "Book of Apple Software" like B-, but that does not diminish its greatness. It was Lode Runner when Lode Runner wasn't cool. Unfortunately it only had six floors or so. I played Firebug far more than most hi-res games. Lo-res never looked so good! With the spare but accurate gas explosions and the colorful burning pools of oil, it's one of the greatest looking games of all time. It just goes to show that game design is more important than graphics. This is my main complaint about many games nowadays. The graphics are fancy, but Contra, Commando, Heavy Barrel, all those games are boring. If I want to destroy things mindlessly, I'll take vector-graphics based Tempest anyday. Speaking of which, has anyone ever seen a decent adaptation of Tempest for the Apple? Axis Assasin was too slow and Tubeway was just plain awful. Worst waste of my money since Pitstop II. > One game I haven't gotten yet is Wizardry. Does anybody have that for > sale? Wizardry is the one game I played more than Firebug. If anyone has Legacy of Llygaymn, or whatever to sell, let me know. >%% Dru Nelson %% Miami, FL %% Internet: dnelson@mthvax.cs.miami.edu %% Eric Hsu ehsu@husc4.Bitnet, ehsu@husc4.harvard.edu