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<< If I recall correct, Broderbund made a HUGE
>deal out of marketing a game called AirHeart as the first DHR game.

If I recall correctly, all the King's Quest games for the 8 bit Apple
IIs were in double hi-res.  Airheart was tooted as the first DHR
"arcade" game. >>


	Airheart's double hi-res was never much of a draw for me.  WHAT hooked me were
the 3-D effects and smooth animation!  Being able to climb up in the sky and
dive down on those force-field wielding robots while the 3-D perspective kept
everything in proportion delights me.  Even today, I wonder why more Apple II
games didn't meet the standards set in Airheart.  I didn't realize that it was
the 1st DHR arcade game.  I thought that it was just released at the end of the
Apple II commercial software era, otherwise there would have been more like it!
	
	Jay Edwards

"Minds are like parachutes.  They only function when they are open."
--Sir  James Dewar