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From: buffa@kish.inria.fr (Michel Buffa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
Keywords: simply incredible
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Date: 13 Dec 90 08:37:07 GMT
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In article <1990Dec12.190936.3023@javelin.es.com>, pashdown@javelin.es.com (Pete Ashdown) writes:
> buffa@kish.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) writes:
> 
> >Tell me ONE good arcade game that multitask on the amiga.
> 
> Mindwalker.  For that matter, all of Bill Williams games are very OS friendly
> and work on all platforms.  He also programs exclusively in assembly
language.

I think you are right. I've got to try Mindwalker again, as I haven't played
it for years to check that it is still a good arcade game, but if I remember,
the game was very good. But it's an exception.

> I haven't seen any European hack-slash programmers animate HAM like what was
> done in Pioneer Plague.

Pionner plague is not a good game. Very repetitive action, not so good
animation compared to all the new 60Hz animated games.

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