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Re: Tyrian, thoughts, and how it compares to Raptor

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From: mrma... Mike Marcelais
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 00:00
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My spies tell me that Majin (tera...@gold.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
| I didn't like Raptor at all...lame graphix, bad weapons, boring
| scrolling and enemies with no originality.  Tyrian is much better than
| Raptor; the multilayer scrolling is silky smooth and each weapons and
| enemies look and acts different.

| The problem is that, both Raptor and Tyrian has a huge shield on your
| ship and the enemies.  I believe they should be shot down by one
| shot(or two).  I prefer 2D shooting games with massive weapons, more
| enemies, and weak(or no) shield&armor.

If your ship can be killed by just one shot, then giving the opponent
bigger weapons doesn't inspire any fear in the player.  I know when I played
Raptor, those ships which shoot the lasers and the fireballs always 
frightened me more than the other ships -- those shots _HURT_!

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|  Mike Marcelais        | mrma...@eos.ncsu.edu      |
|  Moonstone Dragon      | Magic: The Gathering Judge |
|      -==(UDIC)==-      | Author of ChrHack 2.3      |
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From: mrma...@unity.ncsu.edu (Mike Marcelais)
Subject: Re: Tyrian, thoughts, and how it compares to Raptor
Date: 1995/09/16
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