Re: LemminGS

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article jbcole@ix.netcom.com writes...

>Not to downplay the efforts being made for the IIgs.  I really dont'
>think that Lemmings is that great of a game to begin with.  There are
>many other games that I personally think would be better.

    True, although I find Lemmings a highly enjoyable game, 
I very much doubt it would make my top-10 list (or even top-
25 list) of best type of game available. However, we Apple IIgs 
users are *extremely* fortunate to have any games written for 
our platform at all these days! There is little profit to be 
made (if any at all) writing Apple IIgs game software with such 
a small market. Groups like Brutal Deluxe, Ninjaforce or other
individuals, are programming software mostly due to their strong 
fondness of the machine. People like them are the reason I still 
continue to use the IIgs, I haven't given given up on it because 
others still believe in it too.

    Another thing to consider, even with extra memory, hardrives
and fast accelerators, there's a limit to how far you can push
the GS. I don't think it's realistic to hope for Duke Nukem 3D,
DOOM II, QUAKE, Mech Warrior, Nascar, Mortal Kombat or dozens of
other modern PC games. Even the Second Sight SVGA board won't
help here (not that the board has been exploited for any use,
other than viewing pretty pictures). In any case, if LemminGS
isn't too your liking, there's always Bomberman and Wolf 3D! :)
Sure I'd rather have Duke Nukem 3D, with multi-player modem 
support on my IIgs, but I'll settle for Lemmings for now. ;)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca