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From: t-stephp@microsoft.UUCP (Stephen Poole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Review of Gauntlet
Message-ID: <5768@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 89 21:31:55 GMT
References: <43546d7c.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu>
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In article <43546d7c.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> mystone@sol.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) writes:
>  The good:  It's fairly faithful to the arcade game.  The levels are the same,
>the graphics are pretty good, even in black and white.  The CLUT for the
>title screen seems a little messed up, but the game graphics are fine.  The

I have to disagree about the graphics.  I think that they are disgusting.
Nothing burns me up like seeing a game on the Mac II where the graphics are
obviously ported from another machine with inferior resolution and color.
In the playing field every pixel is actually FOUR!  It looks pretty obvious
to me that the graphics were taken directly from the PC version (320x200x16).
And rather than making shadows in a solid shade they have DITHERED colors!
Even with 16 colors they could have done much better.  The Amiga and ST
versions are much more pleasant visually.  The Mac II version is a big
disappointment to me.


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