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MAGIC DARTS/EASY MONEY
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BY MIKE AFFORD
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REVIEW BY DEANO
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For many years, the pub has been a popular place to visit, you can go out,
get a few pints, play pool, chat the barmaid up, get completey sloshed and
urinate in the corner.
But apart from this, you can also play various games like Cards or Darts, or
you can play and swear at the beer stained Fruit Machine stuck in the
corner, trying to win the money back which you got for selling the house.
The only trouble with the pub is that when you're playing Darts, you always
get idiots walking in front of the board. And with the Fruit Machine, you
always get some pillock looking over your shoulder.
These are things I've noticed when I've been in my local with the wife. I
always take the wife everywhere with me. Saves me kissing her Goodbye, in
fact, the only reason I drink so much is because it's cheaper than sending
her to the Beauty Saloon.
As there are two games on this disk, I am going to give them a seperate
score each to be fair.
Magic darts is an ST version of the popular darts game. At the start of the
game you can choose between a solo game or playing against a mate, you can
also choose between a 501 or 301 game and even Round the Clock.
From here you go to the game screen which is just a large 'well drawn'
dartboard, each player has three darts and to throw, you just postion the
dart over the board and press FIRE. The speed of the throw is indicated by a
bar on the side of the screen which moves up and down very fast. Upon
pressing FIRE, the bar stops and the dart fly's towards the board like an
AMIGA owner on a promise.
The game has some nice samples in it, the dart makes a nice 'Boing' sound
when it bounces off the board and you can hear shouts of 'One Hundred' when
you get Treble Twenty and two twentys,along with other famous scores like
'Bullseye' and '180'. When you score '140', the game shouts 'Magic Darts'
and when you miss, it shouts 'Unlucky'.
VERDICT:
In all, Magic Darts is a good example of a well written STOS game and could
show those cocky 'GFA' and 'C' users a thing or two. But the only trouble with
it is that the samples can get a bit annoying after a few games. It's also
a bit to easy to get too good at it after a few trys, but apart from that,
Magic darts is an excellent game and a good bet for your game collection.
Rating... 8 out of 10
The next game on the disk is 'Easy Money', a game that captures the
thrills of the famous Fruit Machine.
You start off with a fiver in credit and are presented with a beatifully
drawn screenshot of a Fruit Machine with the usual features like three HOLD
buttons and GAMBLE and COLLECT buttons.
When you start a game, the three reels roll round and stop on three
pictures of fruit, the game will act according to what you get, if you get
three bars then you win the top cash prize of a tenner, other times you can
use the HOLD buttons to keep a certain picture, which is mainly a fruit, and
starts the reels off again.
Other times you get 'Nudges' which allow you to step through the reels to
get the right combination, other times you get a chance to test your reflexes
on the GAMBLE button to increase your prize from 20p up to £10.
VERDICT:
Easy Money is one hell of a game, from loading you find yourself completely
hooked and find it very hard to pull yourself away from it until you've lost
everything. All the sounds of the real thing are there with some nice touches
like flashing buttons. In all, Easy Money' is just like the real thing in
everyway and goes to show that STOS can be used to produce great quality
software.
I have but one grumble about it, when you lose all your money, you are
returned to the Desktop and you have to reload it to play again. It would
also have been nicer if it allowed you to put the money in yourself and
keep an Hi Score Table, but it's still a good buy for any Fruit Machine
addict.
Rating: 9 out of 10
FINAL WORD:
Both games are by Mike Afford for 'Micromagic Software' and can be
obtained from Goodmans International for £3.95. It does'nt have a Disk Code,
so you will have to ask for it by name.
This is Deano signing off......