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From: woods@parcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,rec.games.rogue
Subject: Re: Rogue by Epyx
Message-ID: <164@parcvax.Xerox.COM>
Date: Sun, 1-Mar-87 01:37:17 EST
Article-I.D.: parcvax.164
Posted: Sun Mar  1 01:37:17 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Mar-87 05:10:40 EST
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Reply-To: woods@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Donald R. Woods)
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Summary: Good game

amb@macs.UUCP writes:
| In article <1465@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, daveb@cbmvax.UUCP writes:
| > 
| > 	Has anyone had any experience with Rogue by Epyx for the Amiga?
| > What version does it implement?  How does 'Temple of Apshai Trilogy' compare?
| 
| 	You start out with 12 HP and just about any monster can kill you
| 	with one hit.  I've been a level 5 character with 50+ HP and been
| 	killed by one hit from a bat!...

My wife works at Epyx, and we have a (well-worn) copy of Rogue at home.
I'd played a lot of Rogue 5.2 on Unix before, and I think the Amiga
version is pretty good.  I've also played Rogue on the PC and on the
Mac (dunno if those versions were from Epyx, though), and the Amiga
version is far superior--good use of the screen (e.g., the Mac version
doesn't show you the whole level at once) and good user interface.

As for the problems reported by AMB, it sounds to me like that version
got screwed over somehow.  The symptoms described (particularly, being
killed by a single hit despite gross hit points) are what I've seen
when I try copying the disk or doing something else that makes it
consider me a "software pirate".  The giveaway is that the tombstone
says "Killed by a protection thug".  I had that happen to one disk
for no apparent reason, and we exchanged it for a new one.  Of course,
I don't know how readily they do this for non-employees.

I've also tried the Temple of Apshai, and I don't like it.  It's
basically a text adventure game where they don't show you the text
unless you ask for it, and instead you get to see a dull, featureless
picture on the screen.  The instructions are poor, and the game doesn't
do anything to stop you from generating grossly powerful characters.
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