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Article #1825Re: *** Spaceball Avenger Review ***
From: rsqu... Roger M Squires
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 00:00
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Donald Good <dgo...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > With the spaceball you control nearly _all_ your movement with one >hand. This is just begging for problems during the heat of deathmatch. Yep. I tried the SBA for hours in Insane mode and it's pretty useless. Try as you might there's no way you'll be able to blast into a room, turn aim and fire at the same time. This kind of simple motion in a plane is cake with a mouse but requires a major feat of dexterity with the SBA, which will leave you kind of wobbling around while you die in a hail of bullets. > I have used the SpaceBall, while it would be great for games like >descent, which are slower paced, they are not suited for serious doom >play. Actually I would think the SBA would be better suited to doom, where that 3rd dimension is not a bother. >Donald Good | rms
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From: rsqu...@thales.nmia.com (Roger M Squires) Subject: Re: *** Spaceball Avenger Review *** Date: 1995/06/15 Message-ID: <3rp472$cgi@thales.nmia.com> X-Deja-AN: 104445777 distribution: world references: <3rl75e$1np@sun4.bham.ac.uk> <3rlnpo$36p@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> organization: NMIA newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,alt.games.doom,alt.games,alt.games.apogee,alt.games.doom.ii,alt.games.descent MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit