Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!rna!marc
From: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Games for the Mac
Keywords: EggHead catalog previews
Message-ID: <300@rna.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 00:15:22 GMT
References: <6063@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <6063@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>Was just looking through the new EggHead Christmas Catalog, and saw a few
>new/recent Mac games that looked interesting, including:
>
> [game discussion]
>
>MEAN 18, ULTIMATE GOLD:   New golf game from Accolade.
>
> [more games]
>
>Has anyone seen/heard things about these games?  Recommendations or
>non-recommendations?  I'll probably pick up RED OCTOBER because I like
>submarine games...
>
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I have MEAN 18 for the IBM-PC, and it's fun, entertaining and (for me) seems
to present similar problems as real golf, mostly vis-a-vis shot strategy and
(most important), eye-hand timing.  On the PC, you hit the space bar 3 times
to make a shot: 1st to start the backswing, again to start the downswing (this
regulates the strength of the shot), and a 3rd time to "snap the wrists".  It's
quite similar to real golf timing, and the results are realistic.  The PC
version includes a Course Architect, so you can create your own courses or
modify the ones they include.  I find this game, while less graphically
sophisticated and without the nuance control that MacGolf has, to be a lot
more fun.  Basically, you're hitting shots a lot more of the time.  I'm rather
curious about the Mac version--if the graphics are decent, it'll win over
MacGolf (which is very pretty and very complex and hence, not a hell of a lot
of fun to actually play).


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