From: din@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Clarence Din)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Turbo A+ Club Mini-Reviews!
Date: 11 Jan 93 16:43:14 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

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The following games are all part of the "A+ Club" and are
worthy of the highest honors in their specific gaming categories.
Each game has been chosen as the best of the best in my list of
85+ Turbo games.  These are the games that have received overall
scores of A (4.00) or higher, computed from such categories as
graphics, sound, music, gameplay, and longevity.  More importantly,
these games REPRESENT our Turbo systems.  They represent the best
in graphics, sound, originality, playability, etc.

NOTE: Games without a mini-review were not reviewed by me in my
      Reviews List.

4.33 Gate of Thunder (SCD-ROM)

Considered to be one of the finest shooters available on ANY system,
Gate of Thunder offers, simply, the best in graphics, sound, music,
gameplay, and everything a great shooter is supposed to have.  The
designers of this Duo CD have done everything possible to show that
- yes, indeed - the Duo *can* do parallax scrolling, rotation and
scaling, superfast graphics, highly detailed graphics, etc.

4.25 Y's Book I & II (CD-ROM)

Highly-detailed graphics and gameplay, outstanding music, and dozens
of things to find, see, and do make this a masterpiece of an RPG.
Be careful, you can spend countless, sleepless nights trying to solve
this game!

4.25 Cosmic Fantasy 2 (CD-ROM)

4.23 Super Darius (CD-ROM)

One of the best adaptations of an arcade game, you won't believe your
eyes and ears as you feast upon level after level of real arcade action
on your Turbo CD.  Levels are long, enemies are huge, and bosses are even
larger!  If you have ever seen the three-screen arcade version, you will
see what an incredible job they did on this one-screen translation.  The
music is even in Dolby Surround Sound!

4.23 Shapeshifter (SCD-ROM)

As a shapeshifting Barbarian, you must discover those magic items which
allow you to shapeshift.  Only with these powers can you solve the many
challenging levels in this game.  This game is the first to feature
almost fully interactive audio dialog.  You are, of course, limited in
what you can say, but the fact that you must listen as well as search
for clues adds to the multimedia-like quality of the game.

4.20 Aim For The Top! GunBuster, Volume 1  (SCD-ROM)

4.10 Sherlock Holmes (CD-ROM)

4.05 Y's III: Wanderers From Y's (CD-ROM)

A challenging side-scrolling adventure game with a similar vein to Y's Book
1&2, but more action-oriented.  Recommended as a "starting" point to get
you in gear to the more difficult adventure in Y's Book 1&2.  Excellent
music and every now and again, you are treated to conversational dialog
between characters.

4.05 Spriggan Mark 2: Re-Terraform Project (SCD-ROM)

4.05 Pomping World (CD-ROM)

The highly-addictive Buster Bros (U.S. name) game makes its way on the
Turbo platform.  Folks, this game came out ages before the SNES version
and the strengths of this version over the SNES version include two-player
ability, better music, and more realistic bouncing bubbles.  This is the
game that tempted me into buying the Turbo CD unit in the first place and I
urge you to give it a try (or maybe you shouldn't - it's *that* addictive!).

4.03 Far East of Eden II, Manji Maru (CD-ROM)

4.00 Valis III (CD-ROM)

As a teenage girl with a sword (there's got to be some quirk in the minds
of the game's creators :)), you search level after level battling enemies
and devious bosses at the end of each level.  You have this neat ability
to transform yourself into one of two other people, each having different
skills that can get you out of tight places.  Highly recommended.

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Clarence K. Din
Information Systems Specialist III, Dept of Chemistry, Univ of Pennsylvania
din@gradient.cis.upenn.edu
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Too many toys (D-50+M-EX, U-220, SR-16, TurboDuo, SNES, Mac IIsi, HP48SX)
and too little time!
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