moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) (11/20/88)
Was just looking through the new EggHead Christmas Catalog, and saw a few
new/recent Mac games that looked interesting, including:
HUNT FOR THE RED OCTOBER: Get your Soviet Sub to America without being
captured/destroyed by Soviet forces. From the
Tom Clancy best-seller. If the Russians are as
dumb in the game as they are in the book, it
won't be much of a challange. Electronic Arts.
MEAN 18, ULTIMATE GOLD: New golf game from Accolade.
MANHUNTER: NEW YORK: You're an undercover agent in post-Apocalypse
Manhattan (how can you tell the difference? :-) )
for the alien dicatorship that controls the city.
Sounds like they have a good graphics interface.
SPACE QUEST II: I seem to remember someone recommending SPACE QUEST;
I like the premise of II, where you have to stop the
villain, Vohaul, from sending legions of insurance
salesmen to Earth -- "genetically engineered to
never take 'No' for an answer." It advertises 3D
animation.
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Has anyone seen/heard things about these games? Recommendations or
non-recommendations? I'll probably pick up RED OCTOBER because I like
submarine games...
"I am the Supreme Being, you know. I'm not
entirely dim."
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<*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson) (11/21/88)
In article <6063@fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes: >Was just looking through the new EggHead Christmas Catalog, and saw a few >new/recent Mac games that looked interesting, including: > > [game discussion] > >MEAN 18, ULTIMATE GOLD: New golf game from Accolade. > > [more games] > >Has anyone seen/heard things about these games? Recommendations or >non-recommendations? I'll probably pick up RED OCTOBER because I like >submarine games... > > Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer >INTERNET: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM >Manual UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty >CREDO: You gotta be Cruel to be Kind... ><*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*> I have MEAN 18 for the IBM-PC, and it's fun, entertaining and (for me) seems to present similar problems as real golf, mostly vis-a-vis shot strategy and (most important), eye-hand timing. On the PC, you hit the space bar 3 times to make a shot: 1st to start the backswing, again to start the downswing (this regulates the strength of the shot), and a 3rd time to "snap the wrists". It's quite similar to real golf timing, and the results are realistic. The PC version includes a Course Architect, so you can create your own courses or modify the ones they include. I find this game, while less graphically sophisticated and without the nuance control that MacGolf has, to be a lot more fun. Basically, you're hitting shots a lot more of the time. I'm rather curious about the Mac version--if the graphics are decent, it'll win over MacGolf (which is very pretty and very complex and hence, not a hell of a lot of fun to actually play). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = Marc Johnson BITNET: rna!marc@rockvax.bitnet = = Rockefeller Univ. Neurobiology UUCP: ...cmcl2!rna!marc = = New York City INTERNET: marc%rna@rocky2.rockefeller.edu = = (129.85.2.1) = = = = "Gimme the beat boys and free my soul, I wanna get lost in your rock & roll = = ...and drift away" = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = Marc Johnson BITNET: rna!marc@rockvax.bitnet = = Rockefeller U. Neurobiology UUCP: ...cmcl2!rna!marc = = New York City (129.85.2.1) INTERNET: marc%rna@rocky2.rockefeller.edu =