Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome

S hold? Perhaps Russel Grant
can 0 help, but what about computer
games: W What will be a classic in
five H or six years time? Products
like
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Dungeon Master, Xennon and
Blood Money spring to mind, but
those
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games that are already classics,
d what will have happened to
them? o
e Live Studios have the answer
here.
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Future Classics is the revival
of
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games past, such games that
were tops in the early eighties
when h electronic entertainment was
all e the rage. How many of you can
remember f 3D Monster Maze on the
ZX81? u How many of you remember
the ZX81? You'll all know
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Pacman though and will be even
more u familiar with Totris. So far
you
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will be getting the gist of
Future e Classics.
If it sounds boring, you're right it
does. I mean what's the point of rereleasing
stuff that's seven years
old if it's a day? Well, of course it's
had a little spice added to it just to
beef it up but isn't still mutton
dressed ELS lamb?
'Hold on a moment, young
Banner. Although I hate those
dreadful interruptions from edito-
A simple game, hut
addictive none the less
An overhead game a Jo Pacman, making sure you collect the disks as you go
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rial staff, I feel I have to interject
here to soy that 3D Monster Maze
on the LT(81 was one of the alltime
great computer games - Aj)
The honest answer to that is no.
Sure all of the games have already
done the rounds in one form or
another but now they're back in a
form which you've not seen before.
Future Classics is also quite unique
in it's play methods. I can't say that
I've ever found a game before that
allows so many different methods
of play. In it's most basic form,
each game can be played by a single
player. Expanding upon that
you can get a friend to take control
of the keyboard or second joystick
and play together, either against
one another in competition or in
conjunction. If you've not got a
friend (and let's face it. you are a
boring SOB!). Future Classics provides
you with a partner. Three
computer personalities are
included for you to while away the
hours. Two player games can take
Taking on a similar style to 3D Dtris, Block Avalanche offers
infuriating gameplav to those who can stand the heat!
place using a split screen method
so that play can be simultaneous.
Future Classics contains five
games; Diskman. Diet Riot. Tank
Battle, Blockalanche and Lost 'n'
Maze, Both Diskman and Diet Riot
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are loosely based upon Pacman, in
that they are plan view games with
something chasing you. Diet Riot
sees a obsessive slimmer in an
environmental quest to close all the
fast junk food joints in town. This
is achieved by collecting all the
food crates and dumping them in
the trash whilst avoiding the various
chunks of tasty menu morsels
which endeavour to fatten you up. •
Unfortunately, the fatter you get the
slower you move and the faster you
are on your way to a coronary. So
to work off those calories with
speed, clamber on to the gym
equipment and lift those weights.
Diskman involves a man and his
quest to save his data from total
corruption by destroying the computer
viruses while Blockalanche is
yet another version of the popular
Running around Maze • hest of times, but watch out for those balls
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