Date   : Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:34:19 +-100
From   : Paul Glover <paul_glover@...>
Subject: I know Quest ... and some others!!

Hello all,

Quest was indeed made by Superior Software and it was heralded at the time 
for being displayed in Mode 1.  I bought the game and I seem to remember 
it having the usual £200 competition for the first person to complete it. 
 It was an arcade adventure in the mould of Citadel and I think it was by
the same bloke.  In fact, the enemy in Quest was called Caldeti (anagram
of Citadel) but I may have got it confused with another game there.

Two other revolutionary games which I liked were Crazee Rider which was 
the first (and only?) Electron driving game to have corners; and Synchron. 
 Talking of corners, someone once told me that if you played Superior's 
Overdrive for long enough, corners appeared and like a mug I believed them 
and played it so much to try and get there - but they never appeared!!  
Also like a mug, I thought with the Plus 3 attached the Electron didn't need
mains power and ran by itself because the Plus 3 covered the power socket.
 I was impressionable in those days!!

Synchron was just too fast, even on my Electron ... and with the Slogger
Master Turbo board engaged it was unplayable.

I'm reminiscing about my youth now, but I remember you could never get out 
of DareDevil Denis unless you turned the power off, and there was an alien 
race in Positron from MicroPower called Bumfluff.  XOR had super smooth 
scrolling and the theme tune in Rubble Trouble (from MicroPower also) was 
the best music I ever heard on the Electron.  In Football Manager you could 
never score more than five goals and was probably the most addictive game 
ever written in Mode 6!  The most boring game I had was Air Traffic Control
from Hewson Consultants which was a simulation of a radar screen.  I gave
up with that one (and wrote off eight quid) and went back to the arcade games.

Aah great days in the innocent 80's.  I mean, a company couldn't release
a game called Magic Mushrooms now a days like Acornsoft did back then!!

One last thing, did anyone out there have Weetabix verse the Titchies?  A
game for all the popular 8 bit formats which was available if you ate two
and a half ton of Weetabix to get the tokens.  It was my first game and must
have been '83 or something.

See ya

Paul.