manes@vger.nsu.edu (12/17/90)
ABC Monday Night Football.....my first thoughts.
I purchased this package for $39 at the local Amiga dealership. This
package contains the software and a video tape (I have not looked at
the video tape yet). The software is done by Data East.
The game is installable on the hard disk and does _not_ kick out
the operating system. It does not appear to multitask however.
The software comes on three disks and the hard disk installation
went without a hitch.
I started the game and was pleasantly surprised with the startup
graphics. The sound was digitized and was monotone. I believe
the quality could have been much better, but I bet the memory
constrants caused by the 512k users were probablly considered.
Too bad!
The football game itself is pretty good. There are no crowd
noises but you can hear a scratchy digitized sound of the quarterback
calling out. The play feels ok, but it seems a bit difficult to
orient yourself when the quarterback is surveying the recievers.
I was surprised that the you had to still look at your defense
from the offensive perspective. I would have liked the view to
change depending on whether I am the offense or the defense.
In a brief, it seems like a "ok" program. If you are football
addict you will like it enough to want to purchase it. It
certainly is a _great_ value if you have a VCR! :-)
-mark=
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jason@pnet01.cts.com (Jason Goldberg) (12/19/90)
For the most time I like this game as well, however, I have allready found two
mini bugs and the company (at least who they let me talk too :-) ) doesn't
seem to have a clue:
The game is HD installable and very enjoyable from a HD, it also kicks you
back to the CLI or WB when you quit, so although it is not multi-tasking it is
still one of the friendlier games to AmigaDos. However, if you install it on
your HD, it gives you an ICON for the game. If you run the game from the
ICON, it will LOCK-UP when you (not the computer) tries to kick a field goal
or extra point. The game must be run from the CLI, as it is done on their
distribution disk. To their defense the manual says this, but putting an icon
their is pretty misleading. Couldn't they use ICONX or something? The ICON
problem is not related to a stack problem, since the ICON is set for a bigger
stack than the cli has in their distribution disk.
Also, and more or a bug. If you are playing two player, the player in
joystick B, automatically swtiches to the HalfBack view, imediately after
snaping the BALL, unless you allways plan to pass to your HB, this is a
problem. I have reporduced the problem on many machines, and DataEast hasn't
gotten back to me....
-Jason-
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