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From: C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: XYBOTS
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Date: 9 Oct 90 05:07:35 GMT
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Is Atari planning on putting Xybots (or is that Xybot or Xybot II?) onto a
personal computer.  For those not in the know, Xybots is a 1-2 humans vs.
level after 3D maze level of Robots.  The game is of 1987 vintage, but I
played it for the first time this weekend.  It's really quite nice:

        - constant beat/bass riff in the background
        - collect guns,energy, and money to buy extra equipment
        - cute animation of characters (when a level is cleared, your
          character blows the smoke off the end of the gun.  Also, in
          2 player mode, if you reach the elevator to the next level
          ahead of your partner, you get impatient waiting.)
        - 3D/split screen perspective
        - your shots can hurt your partner
        - neat robot voices ("Intruder Alert","The Human has been neutralized")
        - nice colors
The resolution may be too high to preserve the nice animation on the coin-op,
but maybe it could be done.  Or has it already been done?

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