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A common misconception of news is that it offers a non-prismatic account of events. In truth,
news is always filtered and framed according to the biases of its mediators and the narrative(s)
they wish to propagate. Our news is no exception, and comes from the point of view of a kitten.
GAME NOT OVER
They still make games for the Amiga, you know. A
variety of developers are working on a crop of titles to
give you and your beige buddy fun new things to do.
Rub your eyes all you like, it's true: new
games are on their way. Ten, in fact. And
they cover a wide range of genres - from
shoot-'em-ups to puzzlers with plenty in
between - so there should be something
for everyone to look forward to.
Anarchic, devil-may-care development
group Underground Arcade are first up
with three games in the works.
Annihilation is a horizontal shooter
straight from the Salamander school,
with power-ups and bosses and squelchy
aliens to zap. One or two players can join
� It's you against the world in Annihilation.
� Take that, you groovy ghoulie: Halloween Nightmare.
in the very attractive AGA carnage.
Changing tack entirely, Halloween
Nightmare is a cartoony platform arcade
adventure with creepy, kooky overtones.
Collect sweeties and battle monsters
(Sounds like my usual Friday night - Ed),
chatting with friendly characters along
the way (Perhaps not then - Ed) on a
Trick or Treat session gone wild. The
third game from the team is different
again: a Mario Party-style multiplayer
game. Details are sketchy at this point as
the project is apparently "top secret,"
which makes it sound more like an
experimental military robot programme
than a game, but there you go.
Some of the games we have to look
forward to are ports/remakes: The Very
Big Deal is an update of 1987's The Big
Deal. Frenetic gameplay is the order of
the day (arf) as robot Floyd battles the
clock to serve a never-ending queue of
hungry customers. Plucked from even
further back in time, venerable
Speccy romp Horace Goes Skiing
comes to the Amiga courtesy of
Dominic Cresswell and gains a
potentially hilarious multiplayer
dimension. Another port of sorts
is Insane-Software's Amijeweled,
a diamond-shuffling puzzler.
Hitherto only available for RTGequipped
machines, the forthcoming
AGA version will allow
� Change It: GM food gone mad.
� Where did I put the parsley? The Very Big Deal.
many more Amiga gamers to sample the
delights of jewel-based puzzlement.
Clearly a popular genre, the jewelbased
puzzler, for another game of precisely
that ilk comes our way in the form
of Change It by Robert Krajcarz and
Marcin Kielesinski. Inspired by PC game
Bejeweled, Change It requires you to
swap objects in a grid to match shapes
� More bling than P Diddy: Amijeweled.