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Title: SeaTrek (£8)
Very simplistic search-and-find game, where you must wander around a large,
empty seascape avoiding the odd enemy and looking for randomly placed
tokens. Boring beyond belief. Generation Design offer a
free 14-day home trial of their games, and this game is aimed at children.
Links: None
Supplier: Generation Design
Players: 1
Type: Scrolling token collection
Needs: OS 2: Yes OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: ?
Title: Sensible Soccer
Title: Serpents (£20)
Title: Shuggy
Title: Sim City
Title: Sim City 2000
Title: Simon the Sorcerer (£40 floppy/45 CD)
Title: Slappit
Title: Small
32-bit Acorn Gaming is sponsored by
Very popular football game which frankly leaves me unmoved.
The music doesn't work with 16-bit sound.
Links: None
Supplier: Renegade
Players: 1
Type: Soccer
Needs: OS 2: ? OS 3: Yes RPC: Game On 2 SA: StrongCache, but sound is corrupt
Links: None
Supplier: CIS
Players: 1
Type: Snake
Needs: OS 2: ? OS 3: Yes RPC: Game On SA: AutoCache
(£26)
Very average arcade adventure game starring Shuggy the Elf. Simplistic design in the 'old school'
style of arcade adventure. Add £1.50 P+P if ordering direct by mail.
Links: Demo: Werewolf Software web pages Review: On these pages
Supplier: Werewolf Software
Players: 1
Type: Arcade adventure
Needs: 2MB OS 2: No OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: Yes
(£35)
Poor port of the classic 'God' game. Running only in a desktop window, vile use of
colour (predominantly red) ruins this game, and you can't even scroll the
window in the normal RISC OS fashion - you must hold down a mouse button near the
edge of the window. Eurgh! It's also far too expensive. On the other hand, it
is still Sim City, and so quite fun to play, if you can put up with
the crippling scrolling method. Also see Sim City 2000.
Links: None
Supplier: Krisalis
Players: 1
Type: God
Needs: OS 2: Yes OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: No
Superbly fun game.
This is a vast improvement on the Acorn version of Sim City. It runs outside
the desktop this time, features much nicer graphics, and has a bit more depth.
Two versions are available: a Risc PC version and an A5000 version, the latter
having a minimum specification of a multiscan monitor, harddisc and 4Mb of RAM.
Links: None
Supplier: Krisalis
Players: 1
Type: God
Needs: 4MB HD OS 2: ? OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: Yes, with Crunchfix - but some sound corruption
This point'n'click adventure
game often relies on you meticulously searching each screen pixel-by-pixel with
your mouse pointer, and problem solving relies more on the "try doing
everything" approach than anything else. Conversations are long and tedious,
and the fact that you can't step through them at your own speed - you have to
wait patiently for the next sentence to appear - makes certain parts of the game
extremely tedious. Even at its fastest, the game seems to assume you have a
reading age of about five. But despite all this, the game is still fun - most
of the time! The majority of the graphics are lovely,
although there is a disturbing tendency to map everything to grey in some
of the backgrounds - some dithering would have been nice, and there is no
special Risc PC version. Due
to some mild bad language this game may not be appropriate for young children.
Music doesn't work with 16-bit sound. Unplayable without a harddisc. Also available on CD (but don't buy that version, since the speech breaks up continually).
Links: None
Supplier: Gamesware
Players: 1
Type: Point'n'click graphic adventure
Needs: 2MB OS 2: ? OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: No
Like Ballistix on the BBC (and others), where you have to
guide a ball into your opponents goal, traversing a pitch littered with
odd obstacles. Not very good.
Links: None
Supplier: Unknown
Players: 1
Type: Sport
Needs: OS 2: ? OS 3: ? RPC: ? SA: No
Simplistic maze game with raytraced graphics. Quite nicely put
together, however.
Links: None
Supplier: Virgo Software
Players: 1
Type: 3D maze
Needs: OS 2: Yes OS 3: Yes RPC: Yes SA: Yes
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Gareth Moore
Database last updated 16/8/98
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