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Message: 4615

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 04/12/2004

Subject: Re: Jon Foster's Top 30 Overhyped Games (in Retrogamer)

 

soa1000 wrote:

Honestly, I thought that given the number of games in his list
that I really liked (including Shadow Of The Beast, Lemmings and
our elder statesman himself Jet Set Willy),

His criticisms of JSW (the infinite-death scenarios and the bugs
that made JSW1 impossible to complete) apply to the original JSW,
but I work hard to eliminate occasions of infinite death from my own
JSW games, and bugs that make JSW games impossible to complete.

But the JSW game-engine is beyond reproach (apart from the
/deliberate/ infinite-death scenario when you fall too far off the
bottom of a screen, when it could just as easily have been coded to
kill you once without changing to the room below).

I also thought it was cool how the main characters of the
"overhyped" games were each about to be crushed by a giant foot from
JSW!

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