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File contents
Product : PRES GAMES DISK 6
Supplier: PRES
Available on 3.5" Disk (ADFS ONLY)
Reviewed by (the) Dave in EUG 50
WE'VE come quickly to the last of PRES' disk compilations for the Acorn
Electron feeling deflated after the fifth effort. But the magic words
"Superior Software" [The most well respected company for the Elk - Ed]
could offer hope to ADFS gamers with a disk chock full of their earliest
releases...and one brand new release thrown in too!
First on PRES' by now standard menu system is STRYKER'S RUN. You are
John Stryker and, as the name suggests, you run. From left to right in
fact. And across a war ravaged landscape patrolled by guards, planes and
spacecrafts and your own forces.
Straight running across the screen doesn't take very long and you
have a supply of bullets and hand grenades to help you deal with the
various threats you encounter. Hand grenades are most useful when your
way is barred by a landmine as the grenade will destroy it and aid your
safe passage. As you near the right hand side of the screen, there is a
short pause and you begin on the left hand side of the next screen. The
background is a long screen and the landscape cleverly 'continues'.
This, and the colourful screen (Mode 2!), 'cartoony' characters and
animation, make the game one of Superior's most famous. But although
it's certainly visually pleasing, the means of implementing a playabil-
ity factor doesn't really work as well as it should. One example is that
your character will often find an abandoned helicopter/spaceship and you
can choose to board it and fly across as many screens as its fuel will
allow. But propulsion of both John on terra firma and the airborne hero
are slow - and the planes flicker dreadfully!
Another, as if to lay home the point, is your bullets and those fired
by your enemies, move at the same frame rate as the "run"ning man! As
the bullet disappears a short distance from where it is fired, you can
outrun it! This makes the game feel surreal. Not necessarily that this
makes it easy though. It's not.
Next on the list is ZALAGA, originally released by Aardvark; a brill-
iant Space Invaders clone with loads of sprites, intricate and very var-
ied attacking patterns and levels of ever-increasing difficulty. It and
STRYKER'S RUN were both the most recent, and the pick, of all the games
on this disk; released first in 1987 and compiled by professional
machine code programmers.
The rest of them date from the 1983 days when Superior's software was
on small blue inlayed cassettes. There's another two Space Invaders
clones - ALIEN DROPOUT and the aptly-titled INVADERS, a FRUIT MACHINE
simulator, maze with a birds eye view PERCY PENGUIN and CENTIBUG, the
traditional caterpillar blaster. The eighth title is a quiz called WORLD
GEOGRAPHY, noteable today not for its map of the world but all its out
of date information. Hazard a guess at the population of WEST Germany?
Whilst evident that not nearly as much time went into their prepar-
ation, all are fair and some of them are quite good. First, ALIEN DROP-
OUT is an interesting space variant requiring phenomenonal speed on the
keys: Non-firing bugs fall from the top of the screen into boxes one
by one, and each of the ten boxes can hold five bugs. You must shoot as
many peacefully-boxed bugs as you can as the sixth bug into a box will
push out the first one and it comes out MEAN! Of course, while it dis-
tracts you (or kills you!) the 'box'ing goes on and you must try and
blast away a set number of bugs (increasing in proportion to level) be-
fore there are so many free bugs that there's nowhere to hide! If you
reach this target, you must destroy the bug's mothership, which rains
down a constant stream of bullets throughout each game to keep you on
your toes!
PERCY PENGUIN is also a fast and nicely presented number - and this
is the only place to get it on disk - where you control a pretty pen-
guin in an expanse of ice-cubes. You must hurl said cubes at the Sno-
bees before your time runs out and collect all the cherries on each
screen. It's a game like PENGWYN and RUBBLE TROUBLE but it's a little
different and all three are addictive and challenging!
But the remaining four aren't anything to get excited about: FRUIT
MACHINE is a very slow one armed bandit simulation which is about as
exciting as cow dung - but the Master RAM Board helps a bit; CENTIBUG is
admitted to be vastly INferior to Alligata's BUG BLASTER [PRES GAMES
DISK FOUR, Reviewed in EUG #48 - Ed] and WORLD GEOGRAPHY is bleak even
if you are interested in world population and country identification.
INVADERS, different to ELECTRON INVADERS on PRES GAMES DISK ONE, is
quite playable although nothing you won't have seen before.
Many of these games ask 'Do you want sound?' before they begin and
this gives a clue as to the level of programming involved. The majority
of professional software allows you to alter sound DURING game play. Our
Superior Software's beginnings were indeed humble.
It's not an overly impressive disk but there are no errors and the
first two games and PERCY PENGUIN really make the difference. The rest
become drole after a short time especially when you know better versions
are out there. Still, loading is very quick and Michael Hutchinson's
ZALAGA loading screen is quite impressive.
Of course, that PRES' non-cataloguable disk "feature" is there and
you have to REMEMBER the instructions as they aren't supplied or print-
able from screen! Still, overall, the conclusion of the PRES series is
adequate and salvages them from a "Their last releases were very poor,"
label.
Dave Edwards
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Anothe| 00000730 72 2c 20 61 73 20 69 66 20 74 6f 20 6c 61 79 20 |r, as if to lay | 00000740 68 6f 6d 65 20 74 68 65 20 70 6f 69 6e 74 2c 20 |home the point, | 00000750 69 73 20 79 6f 75 72 20 62 75 6c 6c 65 74 73 20 |is your bullets | 00000760 61 6e 64 20 74 68 6f 73 65 20 66 69 72 65 64 20 |and those fired | 00000770 0d 62 79 20 79 6f 75 72 20 65 6e 65 6d 69 65 73 |.by your enemies| 00000780 2c 20 6d 6f 76 65 20 61 74 20 74 68 65 20 73 61 |, move at the sa| 00000790 6d 65 20 66 72 61 6d 65 20 72 61 74 65 20 61 73 |me frame rate as| 000007a0 20 74 68 65 20 22 72 75 6e 22 6e 69 6e 67 20 6d | the "run"ning m| 000007b0 61 6e 21 20 41 73 20 0d 74 68 65 20 62 75 6c 6c |an! As .the bull| 000007c0 65 74 20 64 69 73 61 70 70 65 61 72 73 20 61 20 |et disappears a | 000007d0 73 68 6f 72 74 20 64 69 73 74 61 6e 63 65 20 66 |short distance f| 000007e0 72 6f 6d 20 77 68 65 72 65 20 69 74 20 69 73 20 |rom where it is | 000007f0 66 69 72 65 64 2c 20 79 6f 75 20 63 61 6e 0d 6f |fired, you can.o| 00000800 75 74 72 75 6e 20 69 74 21 20 54 68 69 73 20 6d |utrun it! This m| 00000810 61 6b 65 73 20 74 68 65 20 67 61 6d 65 20 66 65 |akes the game fe| 00000820 65 6c 20 73 75 72 72 65 61 6c 2e 20 4e 6f 74 20 |el surreal. Not | 00000830 6e 65 63 65 73 73 61 72 69 6c 79 20 74 68 61 74 |necessarily that| 00000840 20 74 68 69 73 20 0d 6d 61 6b 65 73 20 69 74 20 | this .makes it | 00000850 65 61 73 79 20 74 68 6f 75 67 68 2e 20 49 74 27 |easy though. It'| 00000860 73 20 6e 6f 74 2e 0d 20 20 20 4e 65 78 74 20 6f |s not.. 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It and| 00000940 0d 53 54 52 59 4b 45 52 27 53 20 52 55 4e 20 77 |.STRYKER'S RUN w| 00000950 65 72 65 20 62 6f 74 68 20 74 68 65 20 6d 6f 73 |ere both the mos| 00000960 74 20 72 65 63 65 6e 74 2c 20 61 6e 64 20 74 68 |t recent, and th| 00000970 65 20 70 69 63 6b 2c 20 6f 66 20 61 6c 6c 20 74 |e pick, of all t| 00000980 68 65 20 67 61 6d 65 73 0d 6f 6e 20 74 68 69 73 |he games.on this| 00000990 20 64 69 73 6b 3b 20 72 65 6c 65 61 73 65 64 20 | disk; released | 000009a0 66 69 72 73 74 20 69 6e 20 31 39 38 37 20 61 6e |first in 1987 an| 000009b0 64 20 63 6f 6d 70 69 6c 65 64 20 62 79 20 70 72 |d compiled by pr| 000009c0 6f 66 65 73 73 69 6f 6e 61 6c 20 0d 6d 61 63 68 |ofessional .mach| 000009d0 69 6e 65 20 63 6f 64 65 20 70 72 6f 67 72 61 6d |ine code program| 000009e0 6d 65 72 73 2e 0d 20 20 20 54 68 65 20 72 65 73 |mers.. The res| 000009f0 74 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 6d 20 64 61 74 65 20 66 |t of them date f| 00000a00 72 6f 6d 20 74 68 65 20 31 39 38 33 20 64 61 79 |rom the 1983 day| 00000a10 73 20 77 68 65 6e 20 53 75 70 65 72 69 6f 72 27 |s when Superior'| 00000a20 73 20 73 6f 66 74 77 61 72 65 20 77 61 73 0d 6f |s software was.o| 00000a30 6e 20 73 6d 61 6c 6c 20 62 6c 75 65 20 69 6e 6c |n small blue inl| 00000a40 61 79 65 64 20 63 61 73 73 65 74 74 65 73 2e 20 |ayed cassettes. | 00000a50 54 68 65 72 65 27 73 20 61 6e 6f 74 68 65 72 20 |There's another | 00000a60 74 77 6f 20 53 70 61 63 65 20 49 6e 76 61 64 65 |two Space Invade| 00000a70 72 73 20 0d 63 6c 6f 6e 65 73 20 2d 20 41 4c 49 |rs .clones - ALI| 00000a80 45 4e 20 44 52 4f 50 4f 55 54 20 61 6e 64 20 74 |EN DROPOUT and t| 00000a90 68 65 20 61 70 74 6c 79 2d 74 69 74 6c 65 64 20 |he aptly-titled | 00000aa0 49 4e 56 41 44 45 52 53 2c 20 61 20 46 52 55 49 |INVADERS, a FRUI| 00000ab0 54 20 4d 41 43 48 49 4e 45 20 0d 73 69 6d 75 6c |T MACHINE .simul| 00000ac0 61 74 6f 72 2c 20 6d 61 7a 65 20 77 69 74 68 20 |ator, maze with | 00000ad0 61 20 62 69 72 64 73 20 65 79 65 20 76 69 65 77 |a birds eye view| 00000ae0 20 50 45 52 43 59 20 50 45 4e 47 55 49 4e 20 61 | PERCY PENGUIN a| 00000af0 6e 64 20 43 45 4e 54 49 42 55 47 2c 20 74 68 65 |nd CENTIBUG, the| 00000b00 20 0d 74 72 61 64 69 74 69 6f 6e 61 6c 20 63 61 | .traditional ca| 00000b10 74 65 72 70 69 6c 6c 61 72 20 62 6c 61 73 74 65 |terpillar blaste| 00000b20 72 2e 20 54 68 65 20 65 69 67 68 74 68 20 74 69 |r. The eighth ti| 00000b30 74 6c 65 20 69 73 20 61 20 71 75 69 7a 20 63 61 |tle is a quiz ca| 00000b40 6c 6c 65 64 20 57 4f 52 4c 44 0d 47 45 4f 47 52 |lled WORLD.GEOGR| 00000b50 41 50 48 59 2c 20 6e 6f 74 65 61 62 6c 65 20 74 |APHY, noteable t| 00000b60 6f 64 61 79 20 6e 6f 74 20 66 6f 72 20 69 74 73 |oday not for its| 00000b70 20 6d 61 70 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 77 6f 72 6c | map of the worl| 00000b80 64 20 62 75 74 20 61 6c 6c 20 69 74 73 20 6f 75 |d but all its ou| 00000b90 74 0d 6f 66 20 64 61 74 65 20 69 6e 66 6f 72 6d |t.of date inform| 00000ba0 61 74 69 6f 6e 2e 20 48 61 7a 61 72 64 20 61 20 |ation. Hazard a | 00000bb0 67 75 65 73 73 20 61 74 20 74 68 65 20 70 6f 70 |guess at the pop| 00000bc0 75 6c 61 74 69 6f 6e 20 6f 66 20 57 45 53 54 20 |ulation of WEST | 00000bd0 47 65 72 6d 61 6e 79 3f 0d 20 20 20 57 68 69 6c |Germany?. 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