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From: tehyang@aludra.usc.edu (Teh Kao Yang)
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Subject: Some new Genesis games reviewed
Date: 8 Mar 1993 01:47:50 -0800
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I just rented and played some new Genesis games today, and surprisingly
enough all of them were good or great!

Tiny Toons from Konami: You just can't beat Konami quality. This is a great
Mario/Sonic type platform game. Bright and colorful graphics, great 
animations on the characters, and nice music. The gameplay is simple, but
still lots of fun. There are a large variety of levels. I can't believe how
they squeezed so much awesome graphics into just 4 megs. My only complaint is
that listening to the Tiny Toons theme over and over is driving me looney...:)

Tyrants: Those dying for a good strategy game fix should check out this game.
The idea is similar to Populous: you are a God trying to conquer different
lands by controlling your people. Everything happens in real time and you have
to think fast and plan quickly. The main idea is to devote resources to 
researching new weapons, mining resources to build the weapons, and using the
weapons and men to attack or defend. The game mechanics are pretty simple but
the there is still a lot of strategy involved. Nice use of digitized voices.
Graphics are not spectacular but good enough. Using a joystick to select among
the menu choices is kind of awkward at first but I got used to it quickly. It's
very addicting too, the mark of a good strategy game. 

Monopoly: Very nice translation of the board game. All the banking and other
hassles are taken care by the computer and you can enjoy the game more. You
can play against several computer or human opponents. The graphics are pretty
neat: for example when you pick up one of those "Chance" cards there is an
animated illustration of the card. 

It's good to see some better Genesis games coming out after seeing trash like
Revenge of the Joker... Other new games I haven't gotten a chance to try yet:
Clue, Jeopardy, Hit the Ice, Double Dragon 3, and Battletoads... anyone else
tried them? Actually since last December there has just been a flood of new
Genesis titles and there's too many to keep track of. I'm sure that many good 
games have been overlooked in the crowd...

-Teh Kao