Hi
@Legerdemain
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> Speedball II
> - Loved it then. Can't play it now. It's everything but smooth. The scrolling is horrible.
You should use an Amiga to play it ;-) It is still fantastic and full of action, whenever I meet one of my old Amiga-friends for a retro-night, we play it.
> Dune II
> - Uhm. It's unplayable. Too few levels. Too hard. Too tedious interface
> (controlling one unit at a time when there is like 20 units attacking?).
I don't agree with you, it was the first game of this kind followed by many others (e.g. Command&Conquer on PC) and was a fantastic game. It has too few levels but it isn't to hard to play and I don't know what you've done but you can controll multiple units at the same time, the control is equal to all the following games of this kind.
-- EDITED -- Sorry, failure of mine, it was too long ago since I've played it, there is only a single unit controlable at the time, but nevertheless I think it is a great game (still located on my HD, maybe I will play it again the next days :-))
A disappointing game was "Foundation". Thought it is at least as good as Settlers II or III and found out it is lame and boring even on a PPC200e with plenty of memory and CV64/3D, that really stinks :-(
Back in early 1990th I was disappointed by "Kolumbus". It has a good graphic and a nice game-play, but no sound at all and the game has no goal. It simply stops after the pope blessed you three times -- what is usually at that time in the game, when it is becoming interesting (build the infrastructure and the ships required to fight against the enemies -> just started the attack, conquered two or three cities and the game is over).
Noster
