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Subject: Halls of Montezuma (was:Re: VIDEO GAME RATINGS REPORT [APPLE])
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Date: 6 Apr 91 09:24:49 GMT
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In article <8418@crash.cts.com> ryanb@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Ryan Baucom) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from erc@radon.berkeley.edu
>   As usual, I must disagree with "ratings reports" and such similar lists.
> My personal preferences were hardly reflected in the list (such as Halls
>of Montezuma by SSG, one of the best games I've ever played).  It's fine if

	I would just like to state some personal opinions about Halls of
Montezuma. First, I will just say that it's not the type of game I usually
like.

	That point ASIDE, there are a few other MAJOR problems I had
with this game:

	1) It just seemed like an amateurish effort. Honestly. Examples of
		the "amateuristic" properties follow.

	1.1) It was REALLY slow. Probably was written completely in a high
		level language with none in assembly. Randy Hyde's right on
		this point at least, GS programs of any significant size
		need to have important chunks written in assembly.

	1.2) It LOOKED AWFUL.  Someone is probably going to say that I used
		a bad boot disk or something, and that may very well be
		the case. I do not remember what I did when I booted it when
		I tested it, but I either booted the main disk or booted
		a relatively virgin 5.0x and ran the program.

		Text just looked bad. There were some awfully scaled fonts
		and such. I think even text went OUT of the edges of the
		windows.  I realize completely that this is going to be
		traced to something I did. If it is something I did, maybe
		they could have thought to use more standard fonts.

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