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From: ccastcr@prism.gatech.EDU (Russo, Chris A.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Color games and joysticks
Message-ID: <19389@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 91 21:52:38 GMT
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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rich@sdchemf (Richard Kanner) writes:
>I recently purchased Sky Shad, a good fast action shoot-'em-up game
>which will run in color and with multiple monitors under multifinder.
>Mac abuser (User) gave it 5 mice.  I would tend to agree. 

   I would have to disagree.  I played this game for more than several
hours.  
   Although it has some advances for a mac arcade-style game, it still
isn't up to current levels of expectation.  The graphics are flickery,
the scrolling playing field is small and _very_ repetitive.  The game
itself gives you so many goodies that sometimes for minutes, you are
completely invincible with huge amounts of firepower.  So, to compensate
for your strength, the game gets ridiculously fast.  When you lose your
invincibility, you're pretty much dead meat.  Also, once you get all of
this firepower, Sky Shadow game commits a serious sin.  It doesn't erase some
of the bullets you fire, so you see little white spots all over the screen.
   My advice to you is to stick to the brain games on the Mac.  These
tend to be more contemporary in their quality.


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Russo, Chris A.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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