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- From: herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Herbert Fung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: About Out Of This World...
- Message-ID: <es1ZTB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 18:03:25 MST
- Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #1, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Previously Jerry Penner asked what Out Of This World was like.
- I remember seeing the demo for the IBM compatible computers in mid
- Feb. when I still worked at Egghead Discount Software in Vancouver.
- The demo when something like this: You drive out to your lab which is
- some sort of particle accelerator, punch in your access code at a
- computer controlled lock. You get scanned and are allowed in.
- Meanwhile a mean thunderstorm is brewing outside. You sit down at
- your control station and initiate an experiment. (There is a ten
- second countdown) As you wait for the experiment to begin, you calmly
- pop open a cool one and take a gulp. Meanwhile that mean looking
- thunderstorm lets loose a humongous lightning bolt headed in your
- direction! As the countdown reaches zero the lightning bolt strikes
- the accelerator! *BZZZAKK-KA-BOOOMMM! SPLOOOOSHH! bloop-bloop-bloop!*
- There is now a big crater where you once sat in your lab. You are now
- underwater in a fountain that is Out Of This World! As you swim your
- way up and climb out of the fountain, you will be faced with
- unimaginable dangers. As you trek through dark caves and deserts, you
- have to avoid huge deadly slugs, wild alien animals, and befriend
- unfriendly aliens armed with laser like weapons.
-
- The IBM demo was quite impressive so I excpect the GS version to be
- awesome.
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- Herbert Fung | "Hard work doesn't make miracles,
- Edmonton Remote Systems | Miracles just make hard work!"
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | The Herbster! 1988
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- Herbert Fung herbertf@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
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