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From: C503719@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Space Taxi
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Date: 22 Oct 90 02:46:50 GMT
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In Message-ID: <1990Oct16.224159.29044@agora.uucp>
          billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) said:
>    There's a real grass roots effort to convince someone to do Space Taxi
>for the Amiga on PeopleLink... It seems like *every* time someone asks what
>type of new game they should be doing, everyone coruses 'Space Taxi!', 'Hey
>Taxi!' and 'Pad Nine Please.'

One has to wonder, however, if some of the 'magic' of the game might be lost
in an Amiga translation.  If the digitized voices in the C64 version were
fixed up (i.e. made clearer) it might be for the worse.  The rough sounding
sampled voices and the tinny 'bee bee beep oo beep' between levels couldn't
be changed too drastically, I feel.  I'm not saying they couldn't expand and
improve the sounds in the game, but they should use synthesized instruments
for the music, rather than digitized ones.  There are Amiga users who would
disagree with my sound opinions (no pun intended).  But, oh well.

The Space Taxi graphics could easily be smoothed and made more colorful
without loosing the ST magic.  Include all the original game'e levels,
options, etc... plus add a level editor, hard disk support, multitasking
support, accelerated Amiga support, 2.0 support,...

Someone put this post on Plink!  :-)

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