on 27/2/01 6:37 pm, Aley Keprt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My shit-favourites include Future Ball, Defenders, Sam Strikes Out, and all > those hundreds of really stupid "games" written in Basic. (Of course there > are also reasonable games written in Basic, I'm not insulting Basic.)
The question was about commerical games - I don't think there were hundreds of "stupid" BASIC games released commerically. > As I've seen on Sam parties in my country and around me, the no.1 here is > Snake Mania (by E.S.I.). Similarly to no.1 smash-hit Tetris 2 (by Fuxoft) on > ZX Spectrum. (What's interesting: Both these games were made outside UK.) Possibly it's number 1 (in your opinion) in your country *because* it was made outside the UK? > > I probably wrote this already, but I must note that really big bunch of > :games: made in UK were really terrible. Not in graphics or sound, but in > absolutely missing playability. I'm not sure which ones you are referring to but then of course there is likely to be a large amount of relatively poor stuff from the UK, because the SAM was made in the UK (and therefore most of its users were/are here (although it's great to see people from other places taking more of an interest now)) - so most games were made here - obviously. Then there's the fact that the SAM never really got off to the start it should have - if it had, perhaps we would have seen quality games such as Lemmings, Defender, Stratosphere etc a lot earlier in the SAM's life. As it was, it was mainly left up to guys typing away on the SAM in their bedrooms. I think the SAM has done very nicely in terms of software - far from perfect, but all considering... > You can also count all action games on Sam - none of them is enjoyable of > funny. Maybe Prince Of Persia has superb graphics and music, but isn't it > quite boring? No, it's a *great* game! Bloody hell! (Disregarding the bugs though :) > (I expect this is another discussion which will bring tens of mails to > sam-users.) A little voice in my head keeps telling me you're just trying to start flame wars but I will of course ignore it ;) Gavin
