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- From: rajensen@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Russell A. Jensen)
- Subject: Re: Amon Ra: BUG or BAD JOKE?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.162101.14068@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- References: <3044@uswnvg.uswnvg.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 16:21:00 EST
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- In article <3044@uswnvg.uswnvg.com> gbarnet@uswnvg.com (Gary Barnette) writes:
- >SPOILERS ...... SPOILERS ......
-
- >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.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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?
- >
- >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?
- >
- >A little peeved,
- >Gary
-
- Gee Gary, Kinda like life huh? ;-)
- Russ
- rajensen@mailbox.syr.edu
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