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From: jamie@sievax.enet.dec.com (Jamie Badman)
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Subject: REVIEW : Prehistorik
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Date: 12 Jun 91 10:18:50 GMT
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Review
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Prehistorik by Titus Software.
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This is the game that has been hailed by some as being the game to push
the Mario Brothers off of their throne as the best platform scroller
around. I guess first thing's first; I'll dispell that myth; Mario
Brothers is still by far the best game of its kind. The Great Giana sisters came close but Prehistorik isn't even in the running.

However, as a game in it's own right it's superb. In the game you 
control a hungry neanderthal who has set off in search of food. To
do this you roam across a prehistoric landscap bopping dinosaurs on the
head and rummaging in their caves for whatever will satisfy your hunger.
The scrolling is screen by screen and the graphics are VERY well done.
At the end of each level there is the usual end of level guardian. In
the case of Prehistorik, some of these are exceptionally large! In
particular a fellow neanderthal you come up against is about ten times
your size and with brain cells in directly inverse proportions!

There are many levels and supposedly 150 screens in total. Every screen
is drawn with great care and meticulous detail and it's really this
presentation that sets it apart from many other games in this genre.
There are several levels including "the virgin icefields of Antarctica",
"the lush jungles of the tropics", and "the mysterious caverns of the
shady continent"!

I thoroughly recommend this game if you enjoy this type of thing. It's
very well done and incredibly addictive.

I run a 1 meg A500 with just floppies so I don't know if any other
machines would have a problem running this game. Regardless, the game
is excellent for the system I run it on.



				Jamie.