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- The Stupendous Demo
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- ~~~~ THE STUPENDOUS DEMO ~~~~
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- ~~~~ REVIEWED ~~~~
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- This is an excellent 10 screen demo by The Pixel Twins. I will now go
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- through all of the screens and give a brief description of each.
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- ~~ TITLE SCREEN 1 ~~
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- This is a good little intro screen with some good orginal music and instead
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- of a scroller there is a cleverly done text displayer thingy which draws and
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- then undraws the text.
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- Pretty good.
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- ~~ TITLE SCREEN 2 ~~
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- This is a very good title screen featuring some excellent music with very
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- well timed incoming graphics. It is a bit hard to explain exactly what
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- happens but it is very good.
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- ~~ LOADING SCREEN ~~
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- This is just a plain scroller saying "PLEASE WAIT - LOADING PROGRAM" there
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- is a beat in the background and basically this is nothing special although
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- it is ONLY a loading screen!!!
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- ~~ SELECTION SCREEN ~~
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- This is a very good selection screen in which you use the cursour keys to go
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- through a massive maze finding the doors to enter the demos. There is some
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- good music and a very long scroller going with a little rotating square
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- going while you search...And search...And search...
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- ~~ POLY MANIA ~~
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- This poly mania screen is nothing new as all demos seem to have a poly mania
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- screen - They don't even think of an orginal name!!! This Poly Mania screen
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- is very slow compared to others that I have seen although there are some
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- impressive effects on the 3D shapes and overall this is a very good screen
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- with some good music and timing.
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- ~~ STE DEMO ~~
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- This is a screen devoted to the STE only. As I do not have an STE I cannot
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- comment.
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- ~~ STE LOGO ~~
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- This is a good sample of the R-TYPE III music. The R-TYPE III logo covers
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- the screen and the 'III' bit flashes to the beat.
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- Quite a good screen.
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- ~~ DOTS ~~
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- This screen consists of some music which has been in just about every single
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- demo with a shape made out of dots rotating very slowly. So far this sounds
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- a bad screen but it is actually quite good as there are lots of different
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- shapes made form dots and you can control the shapes using the keyboard.
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- Quit a good screen!
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- ~~ HYPERACTIVE ~~
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- A very impressive screen this one!!! With some music playing in the
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- background, you can choose whether to read the scroller or watch the very
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- impressive ball routines. There are lots of balls in a formation and they
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- move in wavy lines chained in a necklace kind of way. It sounds pretty
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- average but it really is very realistic and impressive.
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- A very, very good screen in my opinion!!!
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- ~~ MEET US ~~
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- This screen bombed out on me a few times - I don't know whether it is the
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- programming or my disk but there you go.
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- A pretty basic screen this one which won't keep you there for long. Even
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- the scrollers are short.
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- There is a picture in the middle of the screen along with a very short
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- scroller waving around at the top of the screen and another going up the
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- screen. I was just going through this demo again today after having it for
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- some time and it was only today that I realised that you can change the
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- picture in the middle of the screen by using the function keys. Still a
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- pretty rubbish screen though!
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- ~~ STE GAME ~~
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- Another screen (well, a game) dedicated to the STE, and the STE only. As
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- with the last STE screen, I cannot comment on this as I do not have an STE I
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- am afraid to say!
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- ~~ JELLY BEANS ~~
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- This is a strange, but orginal screen where you can see a jelly bean dancing
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- around. There are some pillars with objects on that are continually
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- changing and there must be hundreds because I have never seen the same
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- object twice and I have watched for ages.
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- In the background there is a moving, fractal generated screen which
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- continually changes and there is some good music.
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- A nice, orginal screen!
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- ~~ PARRALAX ~~
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- This is another impressive screen, this time by The High Lander. There is
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- some funky (Though unorginal) music playing away after a silent scroller has
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- introduced it. The scroller then turns into a large scroller that takes up
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- the whole screen. Then, the scroller asks for a background and swiftly, the
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- black background turns into a moving, colourful background. Yet again, the
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- scroller asks for something else (Getting a bit greedy now aren't we?!) and
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- this time, we get some spinning faces moving around. Then, finally, we get
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- a drive light that flashes to the beat of the music.
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- The end result is very impressive and this really is a very clever
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- screen!!!
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- ~~ RESET SCREEN ~~
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- They must of run out of room on disk or processor time as this reset screen
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- is dreadful. Thre is a moving starfield in the background with a small
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- scroller. There is no music or anything.
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- Oh well!!!
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- POWER RATING:90%
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