fighter on the landing strip. The sensitivity of the mouse control
can be increased or lessened with the
arrow keys. The escape key puts you into
warp speed and the action speeds up
accordingly.Very good sound effects follow the action as the battle rages...the normal
explosion sounds, of course, but also some
Star Trek-type space sounds warn you
when your ship is on the verge of
breaking up. If you accidentally bomb
your own city, a sound lets you know
about your dumb error (and you lose all
points accumulated). A tombstone and
accompaning "ditty" plays at the end of
each game.
Sky Shadow looks great on a color
monitor. Before it can run however, the
color monitor must be set to 16 colors only.
The instructions do provide a caveat
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for those users who have various INITs
warning that certain INITs or
background Utilites may effect the
smoothness of the game. It suggests that
these be turned off while playing to
ensure a problem free game. I
experienced no problems on my SE with a
fair number of INITs (After Dark,Super
Clock,On Cue,ATM, Suitcase, to name a
few), however Disk Express did affect the
playing screen while running on the
Mac II. I have never been a rabid arcade game player but I must admit I found this game pretty challenging. The game has very good on-screen instructions and
outlines all of the game options very well. The game did not come with written