Mamba 19 ch01 The Month in Brief
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the opinion polls
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being curious what the scene-dudes
are thinking about certain topics we
asked two questions this month,
the people being asked were the
people calling the shaolin temple
(tsm, mamba, i+t hq's) and the
terminal obsession (censor/nei hq's)
the questions and the result look
like this...
'when calling around, which type of
bbs program do you prefer logging
on to ?'
1. c-base....16 votes ^ 23.1 %
2. dmbbs......4 votes ^ 5.7 %
3. color 64...6 votes ^ 8.6 %
4. ucbbs.....35 votes ^ 50.7 %
5. other......8 votes ^ 11.5 %
while pudwerx's ucbbs gains more than
half of the votes, dmbbs and color 64
are certainly not the users first
choice.
only c-base can resist by gaining
almost one quarter of all votes...
the next poll was set up on
terminal obsession...
'what in your opinion is the most
important concern for the future ?'
1. to prevent wars and to have world
peace
2. to prevent overpopulation and
world hunger
3. to maintain and regain a healthier
environment
4. to become personally successfull
and rich
5. to have a first release
guess which answer has won and think
for yourself what you would choose...
votes %
1. (world peace) 8 13.5
2. (no overpopulation) 8 13.5
3. (healthy environment) 11 18.6
4. (personal success) 26 44
5. (a first release) 6 10.1
..that are the rulers of tomorrow ?!
the following charts of first-
releases shall give the non-modemer
a survey on what's going on on the
boards...(and what games are out)
we do not claim to be always right
in our decisions, by giving the
points to the groups it sometimes
comes to personal judgement, and,
nobody is perfect...
we won't correct ourselves in any
further issue for any mistakes, just
keep in mind that there might be
wrong informations among the
following pages..(we hope not so)
american importer charts
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last
group releases month
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1.north east importers.. 07 01
empire................ 07 02
3.the shaolin monastery. 03 03
4.a touch of class...... 02 --
double cross.......... 02 --
6.demonix............... 01 03
pudwerx(?)............ 01 --
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the months started off slow but things
really sped up over the last two weeks
nei tied to the first with empire...
will be an interesting month...
european charts
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last
group releases month
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1.ikari and talent...... 04 03
legend................ 04 01
3.action................ 02 --
ics................... 02 --
genesis project....... 02 --
verdict............... 02 05
dominators............ 02 --
enigma................ 02 --
9.censor................ 01 --
f4cg.................. 01 03
victims............... 01 02
the boys.............. 01 --
american cracker charts
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a very bad month for usa releases.
there wasn't a single usa game.
explanations
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autotest simulator dominators/nei
* by byteback.
predator 2 legend/demonix
* by imageworks.
back to the future 3 action/empire
* by imageworks.
stone edge victims/empire
* by magic disk.
tibos tale verdict/double cross
* by tendeance designs.
cygnus ikari & talent/pudwerx
* by 2d.
jai alai verdict/double cross
* by operasoft.
betrayal legend/nei
* by microprose.
north & south ikari & talent/tsm
* by infogrames.
500cc motocross mngr f4cg/empire
* by simulmondo.
montrix action/empire
* by double density
mark set & go ikari & talent/tsm
* by golden disk. (hi etienne!)
3d chess ics/atc
* by simulmondo.
extreme censor/nei
* by digital integration.
chubby chester genesis project
* by magic disk.
lonewolf dom/empire
* by audiogenic.
shadow dancer ikari & talent/tsm
* by us gold.
over the net ics/atc
* by genias.
plotting the boys/nei
* by ocean ltd.
gem'x enigma/empire
* by kaiko/demonware
england cs legend/nei
* by grandslam
world champion. soccer enigma/empire
* by sega/elite
potpanic genesis/nei
* by kingsoft
shiftrix legend/nei
* software 2000
ooops, quite confusing !
okay, about plotting...the game was
originally cracked by the boys, it
was trained or whatever by the
dominators and imported by atc.
however, the game didn't work 100%
on account of a bad crack...
nei took the boys' version and
removed the bug...so, we don't know
anything better than giving the point
to the boys for cracking and to nei
for fixing (each)
about gem'x...
the unlimited lives trainer might
cause a game-crash, however, that
problem derives from a programmer's
fault. (from our personal point of
view).
the game works fine in case you don't
use the unlimited lives trainer,
or in case you don't use the level-
warper more than 20 times per level.
from our point of view this is no
reason for not giving a point to this
release.
about second world...
victims had a first release with
second world by magic bytes.
however, the game was fully in
german and thus not playable for all
the non-germans in the scene.
according to victims it is impossible
to translate the game.
nevertheless, no point although it
was a working first-release.
about rings of medusa...
mirage released the us-version of
rings of medusa, however, there is
not much difference to the euro-
version released some months ago !
at that time it was translated into
english by paramount; doubtless the
new version is composed of better
english than the translated version,
nevertheless, the paramount version
was fully playable, thus no point to
mirage...
about mark, set & go...
action and empire released another
version of that game a few days after
the first version by i+t/tsm,
claiming that the tsm version didn't
work properly.
however, no evidence for that
declaration was given, (kann ja jeder
sagen), no point to empire...
* at the moment there is apparantly
no 100% version of supremacy out,
watch the next issue for the
result...
strictly speaking...
there have surely been a few
questionable decisions, the problem
is that, especially in these cases,
we can't please everybody, other than
that, we tried to stick as close to
the truth as possible...
in case you disagree we advise you to
write to this addres...
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