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Article #218Re: Montezuma's Return?
From: Ryan John Cousineau
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:00
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lordzeus@voicenet.com ((None of the Above)) writes:
>Actually, I had the game on an old Atari 800!
>ndaniel1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Noah Daniels) wrote:
>
>\
>>> >
>>> >I haven't heard anything about it, but I wonder - is it a sequel to (or
>>> >derivative of) the old Apple II game Montezuma's Revenge? Man, was that a
>>> >great game!
>>> >
>>> >--
>>> > -- Noah Daniels
>>> > {ndaniel1@cc.swarthmore.edu}
>>> > "You see things and say 'Why?'; but I dream
>>> > things that never were and I say 'Why not?'" --G.B. Shaw
>>>
>>> My God! Someone else remembers the game Montezuma's Revenge? That game
>>> kept me and my C64 busy for days at a time. Aahh, for the simple days of
>>> side-scrollers-find blue key, open blue door, collect gems, find sword to
>>> kill snake...I almost miss those days.
>>Wasn't it great!? Man, if Montezuma's Return is proportionally as good,
>>it'll kick ass.
>>I played it on Apple II myself (anyone wanna rekindle a C64 vs. Apple IIe
>>debate? :-)
No contest. The Apple II's inherent expandability and better I/O make it
the only 8-bit platform that can handle today's hottest 3-d games. Plus,
the lightning-quick Apple IIgs runs at something like 1MHz. Also, Apple
isn't out of business.
Take that, latent Commies!
--
Ryan Cousineau, Madman, Catholic, Vice President CSSS
writing from sunny SFU, close to Vancouver, BC
3 Bikes: latest is '89 Yamaha FZR 400 Special: Jenny
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