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Title: Fish
Title: Fist Lore
Title: Flashback
Title: Flight Simulator Toolkit (£45)
Title: Floopy
Title: Flying High - Euroblaster and Joust (£14.50)
Title: Formula Two Thousand
Title: FRED
Title: Freddy's Folly
32-bit Acorn Gaming is sponsored by
Links: None
Supplier: Magnetic Scrolls
Players: 1
Type: Text adventure
Needs: OS 2: Yes OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: Yes
(£30)
Some pleasantly large sprites, nice graphics and parallax (but incorrect!)
scrolling fail to turn this into a winner. Poor control and a stunning lack of
moves cripples what could perhaps have been the first decent Acorn beat'em'up.
Links: None
Supplier: ICS
Players: 1
Type: Beat'em'up
Needs: 2MB OS 2: Yes OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: ?
(£28)
A brilliant conversion of this outstanding game, surpassing even the
excellence of the console versions. Packed full of realistic animation,
superb backgrounds and storyline animations, and with excellent game design
and atmospheric event-triggered music, this is one of the best games on the
Acorn platform. If you like puzzle solving then you must buy this game!
Links: None
Supplier: US Gold
Players: 1
Type: Arcade adventure
Needs: 2MB OS 2: Yes OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: Yes, but requires CrunchFix and new QTM sound system
Lets you construct your own flight simulators.
Links: None
Supplier: Simis
Players: 1
Type: Flight Simulator
Needs: OS 2: Yes OS 3: ? RPC: ? SA: ?
(£3.50)
Very cheap and primitive game with terrible graphics, very poor
coding, and virtually no gameplay. Looks like a very early 8-bit game.
Links: None
Supplier: Soft Rock Software
Players: 1
Type: Arcade
Needs: OS 2: ? OS 3: Yes RPC: ? SA: ?
Two game pack containing the shoot'em'up Euroblaster, a simple non-scrolling shoot'em'up, and a 32-bit version of Joust, a "classic" game where you must dismount riders from ostriches. Will work on non-StrongARM Risc PC but is too slow and jerky to be playable.
Links: Demo: The Datafile web pages (Euroblaster only)
Supplier: The Datafile
Players: 1
Type: Shoot'em'up/Joust
Needs: 1MB OS 2: No OS 3: No RPC: No SA: Yes
(£25)
Bland space-based racing game that relies rather too much on learning courses off by
heart. Nicely presented, and with a good graphics engine, but it won't hold your
attention for long.
Links: None
Supplier: TBA
Players: 1
Type: Racing
Needs: 1MB OS 2: Yes OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: StrongCache
Possibility that new version may run with StrongARM - original version
certainly doesn't
Links: None
Supplier: Eclipse
Players: 1
Type: Platform
Needs: OS 2: ? OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: Fails, but see comment above. Probably works with Tracker Module (PlayerMod) version 4.09 plus StrongGuard, however
(£10)
Very strange game featuring a hot air balloon.
Links: None
Supplier: Minerva
Players: 1
Type: Wierd
Needs: OS 2: Yes OS 3: No RPC: No SA: No
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Gareth Moore
Database last updated 16/8/98
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