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EPSI ALL OVER THE WORLD
In a bizarre Promoware move equalled only
by a rather tragic McDonalds tie-in that's
been doing the rounds, Pepsi Cola now
features in an Amiga PD game.
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pants. , in The thing a is, it's so laughably poor
that it's worth a look.
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I might be missing something here
because my command of German is not
what it used to be, but the game seems to
consist of five little subgames set in different
countries dotted around the world. In a
stunning example of racial stereotyping,
each place has its own wacky activity.
In Ireland your task is to collect fish as
they swim downstream. In Egypt you must
guide a robed chappy across a river in
classic frogger style to a Pepsi Can machine
on the far bank, and in Alaska (not a country
in fact, but these you go...) you must
help catch oil dripping from burst pipelines.
Quite what any of these weird gamelets
have to do with Pepsi Cola is something of
a mystery, although the intro screens are
plastered with logos and curious caffeine
lovers can at least find out how Pepsi is
written in Japanese.
The graphics are alright, I suppose, but
that doesn't after the fact that what we have
here are five simplistic and hopelessly inadequate
examples of what can be achieved
by determined people lacking the faintest
glimmer of imagination or programming
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°SWELL DEMO AGA II
Aliens have been visiting our planet for
years. It's true — for years the American government
have kept hidden numerous close
encounters of the third kind. In fact, they
may even have conducted top secret discussions
with alien races. If we're to believe
certain people, that is.
The problem with believing such conspiracy
theories is that they all seem so far
fetched, and they are extremely hard to
prove. It must be said that the footage of
the Roswell incident, which has received
much publicity recently and featured in a
Channel Four programme last year, has not
helped things at all.
Now widely regarded as not being the
work of some imaginative con artist, the
famous scenes of short, pot-bellied
humanoids being studied by curious men in
lab coats are laughed at by many. If you've
never seen any of the film, or you're just
keen to get your hands on your very own
twenty seconds of fuzzy black and white
computerised footage, then it might be
Programmed by: NFA
Available from: Online PD
Programmed by: An anonymous German bloke
Available from: Roberta Smith DIP
Disk No: G498
worth getting hold of the Roswell demo.
However, there's a distinct watch it once
then consign it to the diskbox type feel
about this, so don't expect anything
stunning.
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j convincing, isn't it?
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