Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekgen!teksce!dales
From: dales@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Dale Snell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: games
Message-ID: <1171@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 88 22:16:26 GMT
References: <462@nunki.usc.edu> <2382@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: dales@teksce.UUCP (Dale Snell)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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Summary: GravAttack is fun!

In article <2382@saturn.ucsc.edu> pyrodex@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Scott Peterson) writes:
>
>   Have you tried my game GravAttack?  It has lots of colors, scrolling 
>graphics, digitized sound, and things to shoot at.  Kind of like "Lunar
>Lander" on LSD.
>   It has 17 distinct levels, each progressivly more difficult.

[ further description... ]

>   This Spring Break I plan to fix it up a little more and send it to the 
>moderators:  though it >is< available on BBSs everywhere now.

...

>   I haven't gotten much feedback yet... has anyone seen it?

>Scott Hjalmer Peterson                           ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!pyrodex

     ( I hope inews is satisfied.  *Pthththtt!* )

     I saw GravAttack the other day, and downloaded it from CompuServe
last night.  It really is a lot of fun, and I do recommend it.  The
description, "Kind of like 'Lunar Lander' on LSD" is very apt.  I've
only been on the first three levels:  the artwork was very nice.  I
haven't tried to see if it will multitask nicely yet; if it does it will
become another "download busy-wait routine."  :-)  Something to keep
Amoeba company, and me occupied during those long downloads.
(GravAttack took about an hour to pull off of CIS.  Ugh.)  The game is
not without flaws, though.  The "Exit" function leads to an audience
with the Guru.  With a little clean-up, though, this would be as good as a
number of the commercial games I've seen.

     Well, enough of my babblings...

					Seizure later,
					Dale D. Snell


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