> > > 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. > > Didn't Dave Tonks (of Sam Supplement fame) release "Mind Games" thru > Revelations (or SamCo, whatever) - compilations of loads of 'stupid "games" > written in Basic' as Aley might say. I'm pretty sure there was a Mind Games > I and a Mind Games II ... for all I know it went right up to Mind Games XXI.
To be honest I like these. I have MG1 and MG2 and also more similarly simple games written by DATON. I don't know who is it, but I know his work well. Although I think most of the games are real shits (sorry), I think some of them are great. You know you must realize 100 ideas to make one great game. My favourite Daton's game is Explode. It's a game based on a well known idea, but in the time it was new (presented on Sam Supplement issue 1 or 2) I didn't know any other implementation of this game. I played the game with several my friends many days, weeks, months.....(?) Also Love Hearts wasn't a bad game, but it's still a Basic one. And my beloved Basic game is Gemstones. (Can't remember the author, maybe Daton too?) Another logic game, but this one has really excellent idea. So, as you know I didn't wrote and don't think ALL Basic games are bad, but 95% of them are. > Now, having never actually played any of the Mind Games games, I can't > possibly judge their quality. However in the early days I thought the Sam > Basic 'games' and things on Sam Supplement were the mutts nuts! But hardly > commercial material Mind Games 1 & 2, released by Enigma, written by Daton in Basic. Both compilations consist of 4 games (as I can remember). btw, I don't know whether Sam Mines is commercial one, but it is a quite stupid too. As I remember it is a remake of one very old game (1983?) for ZX Spectrum. Maybe made by the same author on Sam? Aley
