Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: In defense of Turrican Summary: Re: How about some good games instead of graphics? Message-ID: <1990Dec18.124704.1696@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 18 Dec 90 12:47:04 GMT References: <5086.27635370@cc.curtin.edu.au> <1990Dec16.035208.8126@csn.org> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 18 judd@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Stephen Judd) writes: > ... what is fun about Turrican? I've played the demo a couple of times > - you run... jump... shoot... wow. The excitement and originality of > it ceases to amaze me. Yet, many people have raved about it in csa. I > had attributed this to it's smooth scrolling and decent graphics, but > your posting seems to imply the opposite. So, in all honesty, I want > to know: What is fun about Turrican (and "arcade" games in general, > for that matter)? Well, I'm not much for arcade games, but am enjoying Turrican a lot. The trick is that if you are playing it as a run, jump, and shoot game, you are missing most of the fun. Turrican is a maze, a puzzle, and an easter egg hunt, which just happens to require running, jumping, and shooting for the solution. ;-) Kent, the man from xanth.