Path: utzoo!dciem!nttor!contact!dmntor!bill From: bill@dmntor.UUCP (Bill Kyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: OMNI Mag. raves Amiga Message-ID: <1991Feb26.135614.13391@dmntor.UUCP> Date: 26 Feb 91 13:56:14 GMT References: <19040@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Feb16.193252.20795@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <12274@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1405@tronsbox.xei.com> <91052.161508IO92257@MAINE.BITNET> Reply-To: bill@dmntor.UUCP (Bill Kyle) Organization: Digital Media Networks, Toronto, Canada Lines: 40 In article <91052.161508IO92257@MAINE.BITNET> IO92257@MAINE.BITNET writes: >Recently Seen In this Month's Omni Mag: >"Great games are still coming out for >the Amiga, but the IBM machines are >become superior for gaming, and therefore >have most of the top games this year. " > >They then go on to list Wing Commander as >the best game of the year, but they also >list about five games out of ten that are >Amiga. This includes Shadow of the Beast >II...they were blown away by it's graphics. >Wings was a Special mention. > >Omni is a major mag, and I had no idea >that they held the position that the Amy >was the dominant game machine! It seems >that in thier minds, it is losing it's >dominance however. I feel that the Amy is >still the best game machine (Hey, you have >to get a 386SX with Roland and VGA....to >touch a Amiga 500!!!) Sorry, Adlib sucks!!! > >But the Amy is losing ground fast...the >Base model, the A500 needs to be souped up, >before I have to buy a I*M to play my games. >(Please, NOooooooo!!!!!) >-Cutter You have to watch what OMNI says sometimes, they can be very political about their "reviews". I recall years ago OMNI giving a very favorable review of 2010 (the sequel to the classic 2001:A Space...). They pumped up the movie like it was the best film since 2001. And wouldn't you know, that in a beach scene at the very start of the movie is a fictitional OMNI mag being read by one of the "stars". A not so subtle little plug for OMNI in exchange for a some nice press from OMNI. Oh yes.....the movie was terrible, 2010 was as shitty as 2001 was great. I don't take OMNI seriously about their pysdo-science. I would take them even less serious about computer reviews.