{fh200AA00Quickie PD Game Reviews
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by Mike Williams

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{fb10000FFAuthor{fb1000000 Richard Forster

{fb10000FFPlot{fb1000000 There's a shape made of 4 segments. When you click on a segment, it changes colour, but so do two other segments on either side of the opposite segment. The objective is to make all the segments red.

{fb10000FFPlayability{fb1000000 I don't know if there's a good strategy. If you can't find one, and make random moves, on average it will take you 65536 moves before you reach the solution.

{fb10000FFGraphics{fb1000000 Simple.

{fb10000FFFeatures{fb1000000 None.

{fb10000FFTypical Duration{fb1000000 If you make random moves at a rate of one per second, it would typically take 18 hours to solve.


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{fb10000FFAuthor{fb1000000 Henrik Bjerregaard Pedersen

{fb10000FFPlot{fb1000000 It's a sliding block puzzle. There are 5 different pictures to choose from.

{fb10000FFPlayability{fb1000000 Not bad, but nothing spectacular.

{fb10000FFGraphics{fb1000000 Four nice digitized pictures.

{fb10000FFFeatures{fb1000000 Multitasks

{fb10000FFTypical Duration{fb1000000 6 minutes.

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{fb10000FFAuthor{fb1000000 Anton Carver

{fb10000FFPlot{fb1000000 Tetris with no frills

{fb10000FFPlayability{fb1000000 Not bad. A tetris expert might find it a little on the easy side.

{fb10000FFGraphics{fb1000000 Simple

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{fb10000FFTypical Duration{fb1000000 15 minutes.

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{fb10000FFAuthor{fb1000000 Michael Cowgill

{fb10000FFPlot{fb1000000 A text adventure, written with the ALPS Adventure Creator.

{fb10000FFPlayability{fb1000000 This adventure has a nice atmosphere and some nice details. It's fairly large. There are a few problems with the parsing, in particular you can get some strange replies if you try to do something that the program isn't expecting, typically it tells you that the object "isn't here" when you know that it is here.

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{fb10000FFFeatures{fb1000000 Save game

{fb10000FFTypical Duration{fb1000000 Months

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{fb10000FFAuthors{fb1000000 M. J. Rose & A. G. Thompson

{fb10000FFPlot{fb1000000 A trivia quiz. There are 550 multiple-choice questions of which it will ask 20 in any one session.

{fb10000FFPlayability{fb1000000 You only get about 5 seconds to respond to each question, so you have to read fast.

{fb10000FFGraphics{fb1000000 Simple

{fb10000FFFeatures{fb1000000 High score table

{fb10000FFTypical Duration{fb1000000 1 minute.


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{fb10000FFArchimedes conversion by{fb1000000 Alex Hopkins

{fb10000FFPlot{fb1000000 It's the board game, also known as Othello.

{fb10000FFPlayability{fb1000000 It's been partially converted from a BBC version. It works on the Archimedes, but the graphics don't look right. Even at its most difficult level, its gameplay is feeble. The easy levels seem to play randomly, with no strategy at all. The !Help file seems to be describing a totally different implementation of the game.

{fb10000FFGraphics{fb1000000 Awful.

{fb10000FFFeatures{fb1000000 Both players can be human, or both computer, or one of each.

{fb10000FFTypical Duration{fb1000000 3 minutes.
