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From: ylsul@athena.mit.edu (Young Sul)
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Subject: Re: OIDS and Thexder
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Date: 5 Mar 91 16:06:30 GMT
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In article <99420@unix.cis.pitt.edu> tesst4@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Tobish E Smith) writes:

>Thexder by Sierra is a new arcade game that's out.  If pretty nifty, and
>it's only ~$20, so it's hard to beat.
>
>Tob
>  

I had this game for my IBM PS/2 back in 1986-87...looks like they didn't
do too much when they ported it over. It _is_ a fun game, but on the
PC, the music would get to you after a short while. Its also not really
an action game per se. The trick to beating it is to find the correct pattern
for each level: you really don't have to do a lot of fancy flying....the
downer is that its an infinite game: when you win, there isn't any fanfare,
you just go back to level one and do it all over again (winning can take
a _long_ time). There's a sequel to Thexder out for the PC now called
Silpheed. I only wish they'd adapt more of them for the Mac...

					Young Sul
					Project Athena, MIT