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Article #201Re: Any good B-Ball Simulators
From: e... Ed Goldman
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 23:43
Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 23:43
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In article <1992May14....@meaddata.com> dav...@meaddata.com (David Galehouse) writes: > I was very disappointed with Bo Jackson Baseball. Although the > graphics and general playability of the game are good the > interface is awful. You're supposed to use the joystick to move an > on-screen pencil around to make team selections, player > substitutions etc. The pencil is very jerky and does not seem to > respond well to the joystick movements which makes it frustrating, > if not impossible, to control. > > The documentation that comes with the game states that for best > results you should not use a disk cache or memory management > utilities. I'm not sure if the fact that I use these utilities has > anything to do with my problems but I'm not willing to cripple my > machine just to play this game. Data East stirkes again... > I just posted about BJB, and I have to agree with this. I *almost* took the game back, but after playing a couple games the actual play feel won me over. Data East is also making Ultrabots, which I would probably purchase sight- unseen if some other company than Data East were doing it. Now I'll wait to see what others think before I buy it based on the overall quality of BJB. -edg-
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!mips!pacbell.com!rtech!ingres!edg From: e...@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman) Subject: Re: Any good B-Ball Simulators Message-ID: <1992May14.234347.13201@pony.Ingres.COM> Reply-To: e...@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman) Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501 References: <1992May14.051740.1242@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1992May14.141013.7743@tc.cornell.edu> <1992May14.170645.6978@meaddata.com> Date: 14 May 92 23:43:47 GMT Lines: 25 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit