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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Games in color
Keywords: IIsi, game
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Date: 17 Dec 90 16:53:26 GMT
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We just got a Mac IIsi as a Christmas present for the whole family,
and I'm trying to find good color games to run on it, for individual
Christmas presents.  I've got a few, but I need help finding more.

Requirements:  1)  compatible with IIsi,  2) uses color.
(Color is important because we've had a B&W Mac since 1985.)

Here are some brief comments on what I've found so far.  This is based
on a few minutes each, just booting them to see whether they run.

Pipe Dream - looks great.  Not a Tetris wannabee, but like it in that
	it needs thinking ahead and fast decision-making.  A winner, I
	think.

Color SimEarth - can't evaluate yet.  Looks considerably more
	complicated than SimCity, which we all like very much (in B&W).

Balance of the Planet - Minimal use of color.  Looks great for
	education but I kinda doubt it will be fun as a game.
	Hammurabi-like.

Darwin's Dilemma - Basically a solitare game.  The object is to slide
	playing pieces around to match up pairs.  OK.

Number Maze, Decimals & Fractions - Haven't opened yet, but says on
	the box (!) that it works on the IIsi.  Number Maze (vanilla
	version) is a really neat educational game on the Mac+.

Solarian II - great arcade game (shareware, $25).

Shanghai - We've had this on the Mac+ for some time.  It is absolutely
	gorgeous in color, but not completely compatible with the
	IIsi--the first game works fine, but it bombs trying to start
	a second or open a saved game.  (Maybe this has been fixed?)

Color MacCheese - (OK, it's not a game!)  We got this as soon as we
	got the IIsi.  It's a little buggy, but a great little
	low-cost paint program.

OK, here's my question (complaint, whatever).  None of these seem
really suitable for my 12-year-old daughter.  What I think she'd most
like is a graphic adventure game, such as the old ones we have for an
Apple II+.  She likes Wishbringer on the Mac+, but hasn't solved it.
She does not care for shoot-em-up arcade games.

Sierra makes some games that might have been OK--King's Quest and
Space Quest--but these are incompatible with the IIsi.

Are there ANY graphic adventure games--in color and preferably not too
hard--for the Mac?  Anybody?

-- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)
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