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From: drenze@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Douglas Renze)
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Subject: Re: Oids (and Phoenix) (was Re: Thexder for the Mac)
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Date: 22 Feb 91 16:44:04 GMT
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In article <1991Feb22.160946.11313@cbnewsl.att.com> conty@cbnewsl.att.com (The Conty) writes:
>In article <1991Feb21.222246.606@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, dawg6844@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (<blank>) writes:
>Some choice words about Phoenix:
>
>This has to be one of the worst (if not THE worst) text adventure I've
>ever had the displeasure of plowing through.  The requirement of "magic words"
>that would only be familiar to someone who knows a certain SF movie by rote
>is an extremely bad design decision.
>
>Don't get me wrong, I like 2001 and 2010.  But if I need to be playing the
>movies back and forth in my VCR in order to solve the game, I'd rather WATCH
>the movies and throw the game into the Trashcan.

I did exactly that.  The sound files are spectacular (and I copied several of
the resources into my system file), but *there is no goal to the game* except
to exactly repeat every move that was made in the movie to reactivate HAL, etc.
	I this is the
absolute worst game I've ever seen (yes, even worse than the "Leisure Suit
Larry" game or whatever it's called).

flame off.


Peace and Long Life,

Doug