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From: bv3456@leah.albany.edu (Victor @ The Concrete Museum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: MONTEZUMA'S, ASSYLUM, PITFALL II and OMNITRENDS UNIVERSE
Keywords: Omnitrend's Universe
Message-ID: <1703@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 17 Mar 89 16:15:01 GMT
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In <2684@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, walshm@sun.soe!clutx.clarkson.edu
(Matthew S. Walsh) writes:

>I am also intersted in finding out how many people took an interest and played
>UNIVERSE.  My version never worked completely, but what I saw looked like
>STARFLIGHT  for the IBM.  I  heard there was even a BBS for Universe players.
>Was this a really good game?  Should I try to find it again with docs?

I really liked Universe at first, but _only_ with two disk drives.  This is a
five disk game, and with one drive the swapping is worse than ridiculous.
Also, the game is slow.  After awhile, the novelty of descending to a starport
wears off.  I found a bug in the game that allowed me to become a millionaire,
so I bought the best stuff and flew all over the galaxy.  All this was fun
for a bit, but the object is to get this space booster, and I never did find
it.

The manual is large (100 (?) pages) and well done.  When I had the game it was
expensive, but not copy-protected.

Has anybody completed the game?  I'm pretty curious as to what happens in the
end.


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