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Re: Your best 3-D 8-bit Apple II game list?



"Livid Dragon (see .sig for valid email)" <day@spock.banal.org> a �crit dans
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> In article <39BDCB8F.334BBD8@swbell.net>, Rubywand wrote:
> >Obsbedia2 writes ...
> >>
> >> Your best 3-D 8-bit Apple II game list?
> >>
> >> Airheart:  fighting self-regenerating robots on
> >> a waterworld while on a quest
> >> for artifacts that will prove yourself worthy of saving the princeling.
> >>
> >> Ballblazers:  one-on-one robotic soccer with multiple playing levels
for
> >> robotic opponents or playing against a human opponent.
> >>
> > ....
> >
> >     Those are two very good ones. I especially remember being surprised
at
> >the smoothness and speed of Ballblazer. Another good 3-D action game is
The
> >Eidolon.
> >
> >     Then, you have adventures which present something like 3-D views.
> >Alternate Reality: The Dungeon does a very nice job in plain hires,
> >especially since you can see monsters approaching in real time. So do
several
> >of the SSI AD&D adventures and Dark Heart of Uukrul. Bard's Tale's 3-D is
> >pretty good, too.
> >
> >     In double-hires, Might and Magic II, WindWalker, and Dragon Wars
have
> >good 3-D displays.
>
> ACK!  Nobody has mentioned Stellar 7?  Arctic Fox?  Space Rogue?  Not even
> a hint of Elite?!  Those are about as close to '3D' in both display and
> actual game mechanics as the Apple II ever got.
>
> Mmm, Elite....
>


I may be out of date, but the first game that made me feel like 3D was a 2D
game !  In 4D if you entered its spirit..... thanks to the voice.....it was
Castle Wolfenstein....but so many years ago.....