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Subject: Re: Pinball Games (was Re: Gyrus... and the Classics!)
Message-ID: <412.2780549c@vger.nsu.edu>
Date: 1 Jan 91 13:21:32 GMT
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> As pinball games go, this one is okay, but not awesome.  I just bought
> another pinball simulator, "Quiksilver Pinball Simulator", from Actionworks.
> 
> It runs on my 3000, but only under 1.3.  The bad news?  It has a stupid
> color-pattern based copy-protection (which is fairly easy to
> screw up), and *also* appears to have a copy-protected disk.  A backup copy
> appears to work, until you actually try to play the game, whereupon it
> launches the ball so that it can't actually be brought into play.  I
> really hate subtle protection like this -- after trying it in the store, I
> *thought* I was buying a game that was going to be HD installable, or at
> least would be able to backup (their high-score saving is useless to me if
> I must run off the master disk, and leave it write-protected).
> 
> So, for a good pinball simulator, Quiksilver Pinball is a winner, but if
> you have a thing about disk-based copy protection and HD-installing, then
> this one loses, and you should check out Power Pinball.

         Future Wars also has that stupid color-match-to the manual type
copy protection; it stinks! The color blotches are not in the same place, 
and the colors definitely don't match.  More than half the time, you guess
wrong and you have to start over.