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- From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
- Subject: Re: GAMES THAT SHOULD BE COOL BUT SUCK!
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:36:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <19540@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > Michael Borowiec writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <1993Jan11.035654.7255@timesink.chi.il.us>
- > Posted: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 03:56:5
- >
- > Org. : HAM Radio Station N9EUZ, Naperville, IL
- >
- > Do all 256 color action games SUCK THE BIG ONE?
- >
- > I just brought _Comanche - Maximum Overkill_ back to Egghead. Game
- > play was cool, the 256 color graphics were nice BUT the game CLUNKS
- > ALONG with a screen refresh only once a second! 'Scuze me, but on a
- > 386/25 w/8MB, THIS SUCKS! I picked up F15 Strike Eagle III thinking
- > this had to be better, but there's the same CRAPPY one frame per sec
- > animation! What gives? Can't someone design a 256 color game that's
- > worth a SHIT?!
-
-
- [stuff deleted]
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- >
- > My friends laugh at what I consider acceptable and state-of-the-art
- > in PC games. How can I argue since they play Super Nintendo and SEGA
- > Genesis games with supercharged graphics processors? These game
- > machines cost less than $150... When will someone mass produce a
- > "Video Game Blaster" card with a DECENT graphics processor AND
- > integrated Sound Blaster AND joystick port(s).
-
-
- I don't know how "supercharged" a flight sim fan would consider SNES and SEGA
- to be--- take a look at Falcon for the TurboGrafx-16 (previewed in CGW
- October 92) It looks HORRIBLE! Uses all of about 8 colours at a pathetic
- resolution.
-
- If all you want to do is chunk around stupid hedgehogs on a 2D world, fine.
- Real gamers blast Kilrathi and MiGs at far more than 1 frame per second
- (sounds like you have a slow video card or something) I recommend getting at
- least a 386DX/33 with a static RAM cache though--- a less than $200 upgrade
- and it more than doubles the speed of your 25DX when doing graphics intensive
- games.
-
- Actually, the idea of taking a PC and adding some gaming graphics hardware is
- not new. You can buy such a beast in Japan (read about it in a gaming mag,
- the name escapes me) Apparently the major titles were re-written to use the
- hardware. This seems to be pointless these days what with 486-50's with
- local bus IDE hard drives and local-bus video going for around $2500 or so.
- Let's face it, that's TOO much speed for any game currently on the market.
-
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- --
- Jeremy_Reimer@ |"It turned out, as N-Man discovered later, that the black
- mindlink.bc.ca | boat hadn't been after him at all. It was full of riotous,
- ---------------| unemployed former James Bond villains enraged at the fall
- aka THE JAGUAR!| of Communism in the Soviet Union."
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- Stealth Sig#69 | --From "N-Man #3: N-Man on Holiday"
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