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From: levin@world.std.com (Levin F Magruder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Amiga Games - What's Playable & fun
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Date: 30 Oct 90 19:01:33 GMT
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I've also gotten pissed off at shelling out money for games
taht are too hard, poorly documented, or just boring.  I
can recommend, but not rave about, the following arcade type
games (they're all old, cause I've stopped buying games for awhile):

1.  Menace.  You fly a ship and shoot at things in front of you.
It seems to me that the point of the game is trying to time the
bonuses you pick up so you have new weapons and a force field shield
before you kill the mega-monster on each level.  I've probably played
200 games, and never got past the 5th (of 6) levels.

2.  Virus.  A vector graphics game where you fly a hovercraft around
and shoot up or get shot up by enemy flying things.  I love the graphics,
but none of my friends were too impressed by it.

Recently, I've been trying to get into Carrier Command.  It has a lot
more to it than a typical arcade game; the instructions are about 30 
pages long and you need them.  I can't wipe out the first enemy island
I encounter in the Action Game, though.  It seems to me like to take out
a lot of the installations you'd be best off if you could attack with 
two of the aircraft at once.  Anyone have any general notes on the strategy
for the arcade-type parts of this game, and comments about the overall
playability of the strategy game?

I've also been trying to play BAAL, and it seems to me to be tough and
not very rewarding.  Did anyone have any fun with this one?  It seemed
like a popular game.