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From: ack@wings.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams)
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Subject: RoboSport - First Impressions
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Date: 21 May 91 20:57:53 GMT
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Well, I caved in and bought my copy.

First: It is an amazing game and I am impressed.

However, I was SHOCKED at the shoddiness! First: The floppies in the box
were covered with some white dust (gee...) and one of the floppies
had the metal gate half ripped off. Great. Well, the disk worked anyway.
When I first ran it, it said that I had to enter the symbols as they appear
on ... that's it. It didn't say anything else. No page number. I had to
go in with ResEdit and widen the text field in that dialog to make the
page number appear.

But after those first few angst-ridden minutes I got it to work and
I love it! The game is fun to play and a nice strategy game. I have
a feeling I am going to be here late tonight playing it.

I think one of the best things about Maxis (and Delta Tao too for that
matter) is the sense of humor of the company. The game is amusing as
well as well done. During the finale when you are being scored the sounds
of battle wafting over the wall behind the scoreboard is hysterical.

All in all, a very good game. (That's after about 1 hour of playing and
reading the manual)

-A

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