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From: sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Obliterator - a game ? Pull the other one !
Message-ID: <3969@csvax.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Jul 88 10:16:42 GMT
References: <880706041352.563066@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA>
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Organisation: Computer Science CSVAX (VAX1), Liverpool University

In article <880706041352.563066@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA>,
 Friesen@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA writes:
> 
> Well, this last weekend I went to my local Atari dealer, and purchased
> Obliterator.

Ho hum...Psygnosis have duped another poor soul out of his hard-earned
cash.

> This game is one of the best I've seen for the ST

Well you can't have many games then ! I suggest you look at Arkanoid,
Impact, Super Sprint and SideWinder...the 4 best games of all-time on
the ST (of course, Arkanoid and SideWinder are MUCH better on the Amiga !).

> The only thing I didn't like was that when a lot of things
> are on the screen, it gets slow.

This also, disgracefully, applies to the Amiga versions of ALL Psygnosis
games. They DON'T use the Amiga blitter !!!! They have a set of S-L-O-W
68000 routines which, I suspect, are very similar on the ST and Amiga.

> On the back of the box it shows the guy shooting up

I almost thought you meant he takes drugs during the game !

In conclusion : Haven't you noticed that the 'look and feel' of Psygnosis games
hardly changes from game to game ? I thought Barbarian had nice graphics, nice
sound, but was too S-L-O-W and ultimately a complete bore to play. Surprise,
surprise, the same could be said about Terrapods (all I ever do in that game
is shoot everything in sight until my ammo runs out - I LOVE the explosions ! -
and then switch off in disgust due to the lack of anything else interesting to
do). Now along comes Obliterator and I have EXACTLY the same moans about it -
it's yet another disk just waiting to be formatted...

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