Mamba 11 ch05 Hits and Flops

  hits and flops!
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  another month passed and again some
  ugly games appeared which we had to
  test for your pleasure and enjoyment.

  these games are:

  - back to the future 2   image works

  - starforce              digital m.

  - deliverance            hewson

  - duck tales             walt disney

  ... and here again the 'great' list
  of this months first releases...


  lords of chaos    illusion+atc
  (a game by blade software)

  duck tales        north east crackers
  (a great game by walt disney, really
   entertaining, buy the original!!!)

  prison riot       dom+xds/i+t+tsm
  (a budget by players...boring!)

  havoc             i+t+tsm
  (another one in this row of boring
   lame budgets!)

  puffy's saga      north east crackers
  (an average one by ubi-soft, a big
   surprise that it got released in the
   states first!)

  starforce         genesis+exodus
  (amazing graphics in an x-ample game,
   what else?!)

  deliverance       legend+nei
  (by hewson, long awaited !)

  back t.t. future2 legend+nei/i+t+tsm/
                    gp+xds/ils+atc
  (by image works,also relased first by
  the survivors, but not working!)

  womble              i+t+tsm
  (budget by players i guess!!)

  atom ant            i+t+tsm
  (another budget, this time by hi-tec)

  where in time is carmen sandiego
  this game was spread on all major
  boards by inc, but mirage was def-
  inatley first, but they are banned
  from the elite boards, which isn't
  fair!) by broderbund

  another nec crack. can't remember the
  name, sorry, but the game isn't that
  good anyway...

   back to the future 2 - image works

  the companies just released the 2nd
  part without an existing first part,
  only because the movie wasn't as old
  as the first part !
  the c64 version consists of 5 levels,
  each composed of different action
  just taken from the movie like
  hover-bording or fighting !
  it was hard to play all the levels
  as the game moves the player to
  switch off the computer after the
  first level, the graphics, coding
  and moving are an accident !
                    valuation : 31

     star force - digital marketing

  surely everybody knows one of the
  first games appeared on a computer,
  called invaders, where you have to
  shoot rows of hostile space-ships,
  which are slowly moving in your
  direction. the german programmer-
  group x-ample took this basic-idea
  to mix it up with special effects
  like good graphics, special weapons
  etc.  also the music is well done.
  many people liked this idea years ago
  so i think the motivation doesn't
  leave you by playing the game...
                       valuation : 72

           deliverance - hewson

  this game also was long awaited,
  stormlord ii consists of 3 levels,
  each fulfilled with a lot of action.
  the plot is the same like in the
  predecessor, you have to shoot and
  jump your way through a landscape
  of terrible monsters and other weird
  stuff. the graphics are, like in
  stormlord, very good, also the music
  sounds pretty good to me !

                        valuation : 80



      duck tales - walt disney

  duck tales is a economic simulation
  combined with different action parts.
  the good graphic makes that game very
  playable. you start in dagobert ducks
  office and you can choose between
  three different options which each
  promises more action and nice grafics
  the only bad thing is the loader. it
  takes years between the gameplay and
  your joystick cools down like in no
  other game... but it's worth playing
  it.
                         valuation: 83