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- REVIEW: FATAL DISTRACTIONS by David Gerrold, The Waite Group Press 1994
-
- This book and accompanying CD-ROM contains 87 of the very best ways to get
- beaten, eaten,maimed and mauled on your PC. The CD-ROM contains 180 MB
- of games that should keep any moderately active gamer occupied for months.
-
- System requirements are a 386 processor, 4 megs of RAM, a hard drive and,
- of course, a CD-ROM drive. In addition, many of the games support a mouse,
- joystick and soundcard. But, of course, any serious game-player has all
- that and probably much better.
-
- There are text adventures, dungeons, Pac-mazes, tetroids, puzzles, packing,
- strategy and 3-D games galore, including Castle Wolfenstein (with several
- add-ons), Commander Keen, Doom and a whole lot more.
-
- Also included is the Adventure Game Toolkit from Softworks. This is regarded
- as the best adventure game engine available anywhere and allows you to write
- your own adventure game.
-
- All in all, FATAL DISTRACTIONS is a wonderful collection of games and great
- diversions and $27.00 is a pretty good deal for the serious (and not so
- serious game player.
-
- %T Fatal Distractions
- %A David Gerrold
- %I The Waite Group Press
- %C Corte Madera California
- %D 1994
- %O Includes CD-ROM $26.95
- %G ISBN: 1-878739-77-8
- %P 173 pages paperbound
- %K computer games
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-
- (C) 1995
- Michael Crestohl
- Nahant Massachusetts USA
- mc@shore.net
-
- DISCLAIMER: I have no interest, financial or otherwise, in the success or
- failure of the book or materials reviewed herewith, nor have I received any
- compensation (other than a review copy requested by me) from anyone who has.
- All opinions expressed are strictly my own.
-
- Other Internet and Aviation book/software reviews by me can be obtained
- by anonymous FTP from: x2ftp.oulu.fi in the /pub/books/crestohl directory.
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