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- From: tc26@quads.uchicago.edu (Tim Clark)
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- Subject: DRWHO:Computer Game
- Summary: Information on IBM, WHO COMPUTER GAMES
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 20:52:14 GMT
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- I am posting this for my friend Chris Ratliff, who does not have
- New access: Please e-mail responses to me at <tc26@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- ========================Chris RASSILON Ratliff says====================
-
- It seems that my original post brought more questions than
- answers. So, I'va decided to include the original article.
-
- From: DWM Issue 193 page 6 (along with two fantastic stills
- from the game; opening sequence with TARDIS with blue and black
- background, and a scene from the game, 7th Doctor, K9, and an Ogron.)
-
- DALEK ATTACK
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- At September's big Doctor Who convention in Coventry, PanoptiCon,
- Alternative Software unleashed an early version of their new Doctor Who
- computer game, DALEK ATTACK on an unsuspecting public!
- Like most arcade-type games, the new adventure is set on various
- levels and pits the Doctor (choose from Patrick Troughton, Tom Baker, or
- Slyvester McCoy, complete with individual title sequences!) against Davros
- and his marauding army of Daleks, Ogrons, and Robomen. Companions available
- to assist the computerised Time Lord are Ace, a UNIT solder or, K9.
- The game travels from London to Paris, New York, Tokyo, and even Skaro
- itself and involves the characters collecting the various tools and weapons
- needed to thwart the Daleks. At PanopitiCon self-confessed computer game
- illiterate DWM editor Gary Russell spent many fruitless hours desperately
- attempting not to get blown to pieces by aggressive Ogrons and when on one
- occasion he finally blew up two Daleks, he was dismayed to learn that he had
- only completed a fraction of the adventure! Needless to say younger and more
- experienced folk were soon zapping their way around the game. "It's brillant"
- said Matthew Lewis of Harpenden, whilst Luke Joesph and Sue Reynolds from
- Liverpool reckoned it was "one of the very best we've played. Better than
- the Turtles! with far more realistic graphics- the characters and monsters
- really look like who they're meant to be!"
- The reaction from the PanoptiCon attendees was very important to
- Alternative Software. Sales Manager David Watkins was overjoyed at the
- positive response the game received and was surprised how many stopped off
- to play it. "The response was quite amazing," he said,"it totally surpassed
- our expectations."
- DALEK ATTACK can be played as either a one person (Doctor) or
- two-person (Doctor and Companion) game and comes in two formats; a 16 bit
- version at (** I don't have a pound note sign **) #16.99 and a cheaper 8 bit
- version at #7.99. It will be available on most home computer formats,
- including IBM PC, Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad, Atari ST and Amiga.
- Dalek Attack is to be launched on November 29th, just after the
- show's Twenty-Ninth anniversary and to help celebrate, in the next DWM
- you can win not only copies of the game for the system of your choice
- but our first prize... well, just wait and see!
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-
- Well that's it. Also I went to my Egghead software store and the guy
- looked at me like I was a deranged maniac. So please help me find it!
-
- Or I'll have to go back to sleep in the Dark Tower. 8^)
- Please, please help me. Rassilon
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