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Article #54141Re: Good 2 player games
From: ed... Roger Lexau Grotle
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1993 07:36
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1993 07:36
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Steve Chell (st...@nezsdc.icl.co.nz) wrote: > I wish to obtain one or more good two-player games, ie games in which > two people can play simultaneously. > Are there any good games available which satisfy the following: > 1. They should be easy to learn, and have a short to medium playing > time (preferably less than 30 minutes). The reasoning for this > is that friends who have not had much computer gaming experience > should be able to quickly learn the game, and have fun. This > means that most strategy games would probably not be suitable. > 2. Cute or humorous games would be preferred. (These tend to appeal to > girls more than violent/shoot-em-up games.) > 3. State-of-the-art games are not what I'm looking for - just > playable, FUN games. Sound effects would be nice. > 4. Ideally the game would not require two joysticks. I have one > joystick and a mouse, although would consider buying a second > joystick for the right game. > An example of the type of game I'm looking for is Marble Madness. > (I already have this.) > Any other suggestions would be most appreciated. > -- Instead of Tank wars, I would suggest Scorched earth. I have heard that Dynablaster is good, but I haven't tried it. > | Steve Chell st...@nezsdc.icl.co.nz | > | Fujitsu ICL NZ Ltd PH: +64.9.6231150 | > | Auckland, New Zealand FAX: +64.9.6235448 | -- --------------------------+---------------------------------- Computers can never | ed...@bih.no replace human stupidity | Roger Lexau Grotle --------------------------+----------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ugle.unit.no!trane.uninett.no!alf.uib.no!edb05 From: ed...@bih.no (Roger Lexau Grotle) Subject: Re: Good 2 player games Message-ID: <1993Jun1.073622.19987@alf.uib.no> Sender: use...@alf.uib.no (Bergen University Newsaccount) Organization: Bergen College of Engineering, Bergen, Norway X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <1993May28.002556.26958@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 07:36:22 GMT Lines: 39 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit