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Classic Game Review: Red Alert

Flee for the hills! Here come the bare boned thud putters! Can you imagine? Educated adults staying up all night to blast thud putters and space fighters? Of course you can, because you’ve probably spent a night or two blasting one alien type or another yourself. Well, here’s another in the long line of aliens-dropping-from-the-skies-being destroyed-by-your-weapons games.

Classic Game Review: Zossed in Space

Zossed in Space is a machine language program that challenges you to pilot your trading ship through 100 sectors of space, overcome a variety of problems, accumulate 100 trading units and destroy 10 enemy ships. You have 3 ways of fuelling, 2 ways of accumulating trading units and dozens of ways of getting killed in the attempt. Your ship moves from the bottom of the screen to the top for each sector.

Classic Game Review: Zork

ZORK is an excellent adventure game. It has several nice features it allows more than two words in a command, it allows multiple commands on one input line, and continually shows both score and turn used. Although it does access the disk, it is quick no waiting five minutes for moves.

Classic Game Review: On Line Adventure Games

MISSION: ASTEROID, MYSTERY HOUSE and THE WIZARD AND THE PRINCESS (three adventure type games by On-Line Systems) follow the traditional two-word adventure game format, with one interesting exception. In addition to a text description you get a hi-resolution graphic view of the scenes. The gaming system is easy to learn with the program containing a basic vocabulary of some 300-400 words.

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Video Game Design – The New Frontier for Free Speech?

Tuesday November second is the day the Supreme Court has agreed to hear Schwarzenegger v. EMA. While those of us who participate in the sacred right of our democratic republic will be exercising our right to vote, the state of California and possibly the Supreme Court will be trying to suppress the rights endowed by the 1st amendment. The state of California is arguing that it has the right to censor video games that “lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.”

Classic Game Review: Genetic Drift

GENETIC DRIFT has an original if not realistic theme. At the centre of the monitor surrounded by drifting mutated life forms, your mission is to turn them into friendly life forms. Since TV is such an important part of our lives, the friendly life forms are represented by TV sets-shades of “My Favourite Martian” reruns.

Classic Game Review: Cartels and Cutthroats 1982

Cartels & Cutthroats presents to the computer gamer a well executed economic simulation. The premise of this game is that you (and your fellow players) own companies which produce some item or commodity. The exact item is not specified.

Classic Game Review: BLITZKRIEG 1982

BLITZKRIEG is a high-resolution arcade-type game in which the player mans an anti-aircraft gun and attempts to destroy enemy bombers and fighters. The shells follow a realistic looking trajectory that is appealing to the eye. It’s fun to watch a well aimed shell arch up into the sky, intercept an enemy plane and see the succeeding explosion and debris knock out other planes.

Classic Game Review: Escape From Arcturus

ESCAPE FROM ARCTURUS is played in two modes. In the “Space Fortress” mode you are surrounded on all sides by alien attack bases which are firing photon torpedoes at you. You cannot destroy these bases; you simply try to survive as long as possible.

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