[Coco] Worst game ever...

[Bill Loguidice]

I agree about Dino Wars. As a game, it's pretty awful. As a technical
showcase it was impressive for the era, and, along with Skiing, as the
first ever talking cartridge that didn't require additional hardware, an
important historical milestone, but definitely not much of a game.

Dungeons of Daggorath on the other hand I think you'll get a lot of
disagreement on. It's really the only game on the CoCo that's ever been
given significant historical ink and regularly included on overall "best
of" lists. I can see the game type not being everyone's cup of tea, but in
its specific genre, there's hard to find fault with it.

While I played and beat Dallas Quest on the C-64 (there was also an Atari
8-bit version), the CoCo version is wholly similar. While the license is
bizarre for such a game and I think it errs on the easy side, even with its
surreal elements that don't fit in the television show's universe, I found
it to be a compelling game back in the day. For that, I give it all the
credit since I can't imagine the hurdles trying to make a game out of such
a property could have presented. I'm sure some could find fault that it
didn't stay as true to the license as it could have, but I'll take a better
game over slavish authenticity any day.

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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Jan 22, 2015, at 6:35 AM, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Got me thinking... following the line of computer game cartridges, what
> > could be considered the *worst* CoCo game PAK ever? not disk, not tape
> but
> > a cartridge.
>
> Historically it was ALWAYS Dino Wars in the early years. I never got that
> -- I thought it was a very cool game with digital sound and scaling plus
> the moving background.
>
> Dungeons of Daggorath was one I bought and was disappointed in. I should
> revisit it.
>
> > On the category of Hair Pulling Frustration Aggravation I point to:
> > Mind-Roll
>
> I loved Mind-Roll, once I figured it out :)  I remember not understanding
> it at first. I don't think I was every very good at it, but I played it
> when I worked at Radio Shack.
>
> > For the category of Pointless Movie Port: Poltergeist
>
>
> On the other hand, it was one of the BEST the CoCo ever had. ;-)  What
> else did we get? Dallas Quest was a TV show. There were some unofficial
> games based on movies but I can't think of which ones.
>
> Good topic.
>
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