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- From: gbarnet@uswnvg.com (Gary Barnette)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Amon Ra: BUG or BAD JOKE?
- Message-ID: <3044@uswnvg.uswnvg.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:47:10 GMT
- Sender: news@uswnvg.uswnvg.com
- Organization: U S WEST NewVector Group, Inc.
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- My wife has been playing Laura Bow in Dagger of Amon Ra.
- She has put many long hours into this game. Last night she was able to
- get into the furnace room (to escape the person chasing her) and found
- Steve Dorian's unconcious body. But...because she forgot to pick up the
- smelling salts from the Countess, she could not revive him. The clue
- book states, and we found it to be true, that Laura is not strong enough
- to move the cover to the secret tunnel by herself and needs Steve's
- help. She also wasn't able to pick up the boot, so that's another
- problem.
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- Anyway, since this game progresses by acts, let alone the fact that
- there's no way past the murderer, there is no way to go back an get the
- salts. This results in either spending many more hours starting over
- with a games that is almost finished or quitting altogether and forget
- about the money that was spent.
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- These games are supposed to be fun. Not something that makes her (me) angry.
- Why did Sierra (Games) allow her to get this far without an item that
- was so important? Has anyone run into this before?
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- This is the first game by Sierra that I have bought and even though they
- seem to produce a good product, I don't think that I trust them to not
- stick it to me in another game. This is recreation, not a college
- entrance exam. Why such a fatal error that leaves no option except
- starting over? I see now that she should have saved after each act but
- who would have guessed that?
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- A little peeved,
- Gary
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