Re: Out of this World

[90taobri@wave.scar (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Grover Thomas's lips:
> 
>    While its not a speed-demon, the GS version is very capable in both
> TV (1/2 height, 1/2 width) and 70mm (1/2 height, full width) sizes.
> Personally, I prefer the 70mm mode, and the keyboard controls seem finer
> than the joystick.

    With an 8-MHz Zip, I find the 35mm mode quite playable, although the
animation during the intro sequence lags behind the background music.  It
would be nice if the game could intelligently "stretch" out the background
music to keep in time with the action.

> In article <1993Jan6.144949.9800@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dstarr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dwight Starr) writes:
> 
> >What gun?  
> >I got a walkthru from someone (sorry I don't have his name here) that says
> >to kill the little creatures in the second and third screens.  How?  
> 
> ?  I dunno, I just ran and jumped over them.  Pretty easy once you get
> the timing down.

    Kick 'em!  Makes it a lot easier when you're coming back the other away
outrunning the large, shadowy carnivourous beast...

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