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- From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
- Subject: Re: Was there ever a STAR WARS for the PC?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:50:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <20076@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > KAM GREGORY K writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <C1FH8z.FG1@ecf.toronto.edu>
- > Posted: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:05:0
- >
- > Org. : University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
- >
- >
- >
- > I was wondering if there was ever a STAR WARS game for
- > the PC that came out before. I just got my 386 two summers ago
- > and I haven't seen one since.
- >
- > I really liked the arcade game and was wondering if
- > a home computer version existed, and if it does, if it is
- > any good....
- >
- > (comparable to the arcade?)
- >
- > Greg
- > 1
-
-
- Yes, there was. It was CGA but used the red, green and yellow pallette and
- so didn't look that bad, in fact it looked quite similar to the arcade
- version.
- Gameplay was very close to the arcade version, maybe not quite as smooth (as
- would be expected on a raster screen instead of a vector device) but still
- loads of fun to play. (I found it as much fun to play as the arcade version)
-
- You'd need a slowdown utility to play it on a fast PC, and it had disk-based
- copy protection.
-
- Of course you may want to wait (and wait, and wait) for XWING... :)
-
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-
- --
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- 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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