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- From: kwed@pip.dknet.dk (Jan Lund Thomsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: POLYGONAMY is coming soon... Re: DOOM preview
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 23:49:10 -0500
- Organization: Triangle - The solution to your confuzion!
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- Stephen Judd writes:
-
- >>Tecnically it's called Sentry overseas as Firebird was a british company.
-
- > I was looking through some WaReZ box that someone gave me a while back and
- > I discovered a disk with some game called "Sentry" on the label. Well I
- > was interested to see this game you were talking about and booted it up.
- > It is an old Synapse game, (c) 1984, and is probably the reason for the
- > name change.
-
- > Not a bad game, and it has lots of technical tricks that perhaps tend to
- > be considered 'modern': smooth text scrolls, multiplexed sprites, and
- > opened-up side borders, except without all the sparklies you often see in
- > demos. It reminds me of an old Activision game for the Atari 2600 that was
- > similar to star-raiders... what the heck was the name of that thing? Oh well.
-
- Eep! You're talking about a completely different game. We're talking
- about "The Sentinel" by Firebird is a 3D-vector game with 10000 (yes,
- ten*thousand*) levels.
-
- The object of the game is to gain control of each landscape by defeating
- the "Sentinel" guarding the landscape. As a robot of some sort you zap
- energy from trees. This energy enables you to 'climb' up to the Sentinel,
- and zap him.
-
- Sounds confuzing? It is! Once you get the hang of it, it will keep you
- playing for hours (or in my case, years. :))
-
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- Jan Lund Thomsen (aka Qed/Triangle 3532) Lystrup, Denmark
- C64/RPG/INWO/Warner Bros/Disney/Anthro/Comics-addict and all-around nice guy.
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