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From: kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: XEGS carts
Message-ID: <4489@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 89 20:15:26 GMT
References: <374@ultb.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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From article <374@ultb.UUCP>, by clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser):
> I don't know about the other carts, but I do know that Dark Chambers has
> not been released yet.
> 
I was just at out local User's Group Monday evening and our resident software
supplier has several new cartridges with him (that I had never seen before).
They were:
		Dark Chambers
		Into the Eagles Nest
		Crystal Castles
		Mario Brothers
		Crime Busters (needs light gun)
> 
> PS:  What exactly is Dark Chambers about?  

Our supplier let us demo two of the cartridges.  The first, Dark Chambers,
is a 'Temple of Apshi' type of maze game with 30 some levels (rooms).  It
can be played at three different skill levels and seemed very nice.

The second games was Crystal Castles, which seems like a nice game for
children in that it has a cute sticky bear figure and doesn't require
lightening quick reflexes.  We didn't spend much time with this one
because the meeting was winding down and people were leaving.

He was selling for Dark Chambers for about $32.95.  Crystal Castles wasn't
quite that high.  When Atari first mentioned all the new cartridges that
they were coming out with, they were supposed to be in the $19 - $24 range.
What happened?  Maybe they think they can get more because Nintendo cartridges
are more expensive.  All I can say to Atari is: (in the words of Lloyd
Bensten) "I have played Nintendo games and these are no Nintendo games".

That criticism aside, I am glad to see that the dam is busting loose and
cartridges are arriving.  I'm looking forward to seeing Crossbow and
Air Ball.

					Kit Kimes  
					AT&T--Bell Laboratories
					...att!ihlpe!kimes