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Article #5129Re: ABUSE is fun
From: mil... Neal W. Miller
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 00:00
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rhof...@crl.com (Roger Hofmann) writes: >Walter DAO (wd...@netcom.com) wrote: >: I downloaded the shareware/demo version of ABUSE. I wasnt expecting much. But >: I must say that the GFX are very well done, the action is excellent and the >: overall result is top notch. Agreed. BTW, is is just me, or did anyone else, upon their first game of Abuse, have to refrain from shouting "Run away! Run away!" at certain points (a la Monty Python)? >: In any case, why was the game called abuse ? the main character looks like >: a Predator (look at the helmet) and the enemy looks like an "Alien" entity. >: (If you have ever seen any ANTs that look like those creatures, tell me >: where and I'll pay big bucks to look at them and collect a few of them >: to create my own ant oops .... alien farm). >: It should have been Aliens vs. Predator. Also true. The resemblances are more than passing. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Neal Miller | --------------------- | "This Side Up - Not Plummet Please!" mil...@rpi.edu | Southampton, PA 18966 | - the box for my Taiwanese CPU fan ---------------http://www.rpi.edu/~millen3------------------------------------
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From: mil...@alum01.its.rpi.edu (Neal W. Miller) Subject: Re: ABUSE is fun Date: 1995/09/06 Message-ID: <42kjio$874@alum01.its.rpi.edu> X-Deja-AN: 109649831 references: <wdaoDEF3s4.DsH@netcom.com> <42imiv$njd@crl6.crl.com> organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit