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From: merlyn@sequent.UUCP
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Subject: Re: New Atari Games from Lucasfilm, Ltd.
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 12:49:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 12:49:00 1984
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> From: grw@fortune.UUCP
> Message-ID: <3298@fortune.UUCP>
> Date: Mon, 14-May-84 12:33:24 PDT
> 
> 	Okay, I'll tell.  I've seen early versions of both the lucasfilm
>     games, and played one of them quite a bit.  They are tentatively called
>     "Behind Jaggai Lines" and "Ballblaster".  They are without any doubt
>     the greatest games I have seen on any home computer system.  BJL is
>     a shoot the aliens game, and BB is a bumbercar soccer game. Both have
>     3-D graphics, with the screen looking like a viewport into the real
>     world.  BJL has a better flight simulator than the ones running on
>     the IBM-PC.  BB is fast, exciting and an incredible amount of fun.
> 	Definitely the biggest thing since pacman.   You can stop wondering.
> 
> 
> 							-Glenn

I too have played both games.  Definitely HOT.  Jaggi still amazes me
about the number of necessary calculations in realtime necessary to get
the picture on the screen.  I dunno how they can even *approach* the
computational complexity that it appears to have with the poor ole' 6502.
Sounds, talk about sounds!  The ship flying through space makes great
sound stuff.  The music on Blaster is really great (not the standard arcade
quality music either... these guys go full out).  And the pace of Blaster
(even on you vs. the machine) is something that even my world-class video
champ brother Ron (who scored the record for Defender @ 25M points last
year) is challenged by.  It's hard to find a game that keeps Ron interested
any more... Blaster succeeded.  That's a statement in itself.

Those guys at Lucasfilm are pretty hot.  I hope they come out with LOTSA
good games that astound and amaze me as much as Star Raiders did 5 years
ago.  (How do they do those things with the Atari processor?)

-- A particularly personal and original observation from the thought-stream of
Randal L. ("blasted ball") Schwartz, esq. (merlyn@sequent.UUCP)
	(Official Legendary Sorcerer of the 1984 Summer Olympics)
Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. (503)626-5700 (sequent = 1/quosine)
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