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From: carlos@io.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Garrison/Gauntlet
Message-ID: <502@io.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 18:57:16 EST
Article-I.D.: io.502
Posted: Tue Dec  8 18:57:16 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 15:45:43 EST
References: <550@zehntel.UUCP>
Reply-To: carlos@zapp.UUCP (Carlos Smith)
Organization: Interleaf, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: Uhhh, just how buggy is it?

In article <550@zehntel.UUCP> donw@zehntel.UUCP (Don White) writes:
>>     A friend just bought a copy of Garrison (sp?) for me from somewhere 
>in silicon valley. It is almost exactly the same game as Gauntlet which
>is an arcade game.  
>     The sound and music are excellent. (stereo, possibly digitized) The
>play action is smooth and FAST.  There is alot of action, monsters are
>everywhere. They throw things, chase you, appear and dissappear, and just
>generally make havoc. The programmers at Rainbow Gmbh DID GOOD! Thanks!  
 ...
>-- Pray for Sanity,  but don't get crazy about it.       Don White, now. --

And it WORKS!??! A few months ago myself and 2 friends all bought copies of
Garrison, but all ended up having to return them. One copy never booted up
(on an A500), while the other two would always hang while going to a new
level. None of us were ever able to finish a game without it hanging. 

I liked the game, and hated having to return it. So, now I am wondering if
this is a new release, or what? Ours were definitely European versions, 
written for PAL displays because everything went off the edges of the screen
(though it didn't effect gameplay much). Is this still true? If it has been
fixed I would pick it up again (or maybe we got a whole bad batch). The game
was superbly done while it worked, the graphics and sound were truly of
arcade quality. At any rate it sure throws down the gauntlet [sick] for 
Mindscape, who are doing the Amiga version of Gauntlet. They will have to
work very hard to match the graphics of Garrison, which may be why they are
upset.
-- 
			Carlos Smith
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