r8ty@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (04/25/91)
Hi, I have two completely unrelated questions I would like to ask you gamers out there: 1) I've noticed a lot of people have been recently discussing Dragon's Lair for the Mac. Is this just exaclty like the old video-disc game that took the arcades by storm years ago? If so, is it a CD-ROM game or did they somehow manage to cram all of the graphics on to a dinky floppy? 2) In following this newsgroup for the last few months I noticed that not once has anyone ever mentioned the game Block Out for the Mac - for those of you who don't know, it's exactly like the arcade game of the same name that I loved but no one else seemed to like much; oh, if you've never seen the arcade game it's really just 3D tetris, and is, as such, quite a bit more challenging and interesting than old 2D tetris. The version I have I bought in December of last year and its one tremendous drawback is that it is in B&W only, which is bad because the game principle relies pretty heavily on being able to discern one block level from another as you look down into the pit - the arcade version color codes the levels so it's easy there - and this is more than slightly difficult in B&W. When ordering the game I asked why no color version was available, and I was told that it was written somewhere in eastern europe and that they hadn't gotten color macs out that way yet, but that a color version was soon to come. My question is, then: has anyone seen a color version of Block Out for the Mac yet? (note: this game is a TRUE 3D tetris - i.e. the shapes you are dropping exist in 3 dimensions, unlike Welltris) Thanks, Roland