Top Ten ST Games¢----------------¢¢Seeing as nobody sent in a 'Top Ten', you'll have to put up with this one! If I don't get any in the near future then look out for 'Top Ten ST Crews', 'Top Ten STD's', 'Top Ten Natural Yoghurts' etc.¢¢Anyway, if I actually play a game more than a couple of times then it usually means it'll have a place in this top ten! Games that only just missed out on a place are Lotus 2, R-Type, Rodland, Mega-lo-Mania, Xenon 2, Lure of the Temptress and Ishar 2.¢¢John E. (TEBSF)¢*¢10) Gods¢¢Nope, not a Gods game at all, 'Gods' is a platform beat-em-up and is very similar to a game called 'Deliverance'. I've put this ahead of 'Deliverance' only because I've only received it recently and have played it a little bit.¢ Great graphics and it uses all the memory to store the levels, which means, after the big load, no more disk access at all (except to save high scores). I've not really got that far in it though.¢*¢9) Wings of Death II - Lethal Xcess¢¢Brilliant shoot-em-up with some of the best graphics you'll ever see on an ST game. Digitised sounds abound and playability is top notch. Pity it's so damn hard!¢Get it if you can!¢*¢8) Ishar¢¢Yep, do I love Role Playing Games! This one is very good and may have been displaced by its sequel, but I haven't played that much yet!¢ Again, great graphics and digitised sounds make this game a joy to play (well, except moving about can be a little slow).¢*¢7) Player Manager¢¢This is an extension of the original 'Kick Off' where you manage the team and can play in the matches (either as yourself or as a team). Good game but shame it has a tendency to crash!¢*¢6) Vroom¢¢The best racing car game on the ST - no doubt! Forget the Lotus trilogy, get hold of this one if you can! The major let-down is that some of the races require mouse control (ARGH!) and although the data disk fixed this, the car control was 'tweeked' a little which made it rather more difficult!¢*¢5) Kick Off 2¢¢Ah yes, great game; especially in two player mode but playing against the computer can be a joy too (and a challenge). Pity 'Kick Off 3' (or 'Goal!') was such a let down.¢ Has anybody seen the Amiga version of 'Kick Off 2'? It makes the ST version seem like a Spectrum conversion! Still, it's playability that counts! Hmm.¢*¢4) Secret of Monkey Island¢¢I suppose this could come under the heading of 'Role Playing Game' but is generally described as a 'point and click' game. This game has everything - great graphics, brilliant playability and stomach aching humour. Why is it at 4 then? Well, once you've played it and died/knacked up, it can be a bit frustrating having to go through the game again and talk to the same characters etc. I've not played it for awhile because I should have poisoned the meat before giving it to some dogs. I didn't so I haven't played it since.¢ The combat scenes in this game are brilliant!¢*¢3) Blat¢¢A Public Domain STE only game based on the familair 'Tetris' format. This game is very similar (in gameplay) to 'Stack Up' so you know what it's like. Probably the best game ever to grace a Public Domain disk (it isn't even shareware!) It will work on half meg but if you want to sample all the delights and hear the digitised speech then you'll need one meg. It's on Serenade PD disk 1 so contact me if you want a copy (make sure you do have an STe!)¢*¢2) Sensible Soccer v1.1¢¢This had to be here because I am the Sensible Soccer King (just ask Spite, Flintstone, Alias Maximus, Anal Andy). To tell the truth, I haven't played this game at all recently, prefering 'Kick Off 2' but no doubt I'll come back to it. The problem is I've only got one joystick and I'm so good against the computer it just gets boring! 'Kick Off 2' gives a better single player challenge, but with two players there's no beating 'Sensible Soccer'.¢*¢1) Dungeon Master¢¢Sigh. The best game on the ST; I have no doubt. I remember it was in one of the very first parcels I received from Flintstone and I noticed the class immediately. I didn't really know what I was doing (it's silly trying to get into the game without knowing the spells) but I played it for 8 hours one day! I've been playing it a little recently but twice I've chosen two priests instead of a priest and a wizard! If you don't understand what I mean - you're missing the greatest game written for an Atari computer.¢
