Re: This old good games ...

[cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <9301160240.AA04155@wave.scar.utoronto.ca.utoronto.ca> 90taobri@WAVE.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes:
>
>The following revelation escaped zardini Olivier's lips:
>> 
>>         I don't agree with people who say that they would like to have
>> a spy hunter, or choplifter, or Might and Magic, or karateka, or lode
>> runner, or elite ...etc version for the apple IIgs.
>> 
>>         Those games are legendary and their interest is not linked to
>> their graphics or sound... What could bring a new lode runner on gs ?
>> I think nothing... I used to play to lode runner on my green monitor
>> and when i play with it on the color gs screen it's not the same
>> thing.
>
>    You could always simulate a green monochrome screen!  :)  I played a
>colour version of Choplifter in the arcade and it simply wasn't as
>enjoyable as the monochrome HGR Apple version.  I'd like to see some one
>rewrite those classic games as a GS/OS or ProDOS 8 program which can be
>run from the Finder, then quit back to the Finder.  Of course, the
>reworked games should be PD/shareware so that everyone can enjoy them.

I have to object to the *apparent* feeling that a game gets worse when
more elaborate graphics or sound are added (if I'm wrong on the
interpretation, I apologize). *Of* *course* "effects" aren't everything;
the "plot" and "direction" decide whether a game is good or not. But
given that a game's concept is good, I think "effects" can and do add a
lot. As a rather simple example, the GS version of Silent Service is 
enormously more playable (I think) than the //e version.

	Tero Sand
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