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- From: rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan)
- Subject: Re: Wonder Dog [SEGA CD]
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:26:38 GMT
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- In article <C03A2x.457@ais.org> mfrose@ais.org (Martin Rose) writes:
- >In article <C01IJu.15y@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Bob Rusbasan) writes:
- >>In article <Bzzn3z.4B6@ais.org> mfrose@ais.org (Martin Rose) writes:
- >>Secondly, does this game allow you to save your game? If not, then
- >>I would consider this a serious design flaw. Platform games are fun,
-
- >Wonder Dog gives you a password at the end of each Level. (It's like the
- >Sonics, where each Level is broken up into Zones.) However, the passwords
- >and continues (infinite in number) restart you at the beginning of your
- >current LEVEL. That's right -- if you lose your last hound in Bunny Hop
- >Meadow, Zone 3, when you choose to continue, you will restart at BHM, Zone
- >ONE. Talk about a handicap...
-
- Then I have to stand by my original statement: This is a serious
- design flaw. What's the point of having built-in backup that never
- gets used? Does *any* Sega CD game other than Scherlock Holmes use
- the built-in backup?
-
- I thought the cost of battery backup was probably too high for most
- companies to justify, so they didn't use it. With the Sega CD's
- built-in backup memory, I thought virtually every game would take
- advantage of it!
-
- I'm sorry, but it is just brain dead to expect gamers to be writing
- down codes that don't even save your exact place when the game could
- generate a slightly longer code to save your exact location, score,
- etc., and put in in the Sega CD's memory!
-
- I guess everyone's too busy shovelling ugly video footage onto CDs
- to bother with the Sega CD's nice features, like this one...
-
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