Power Mad
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Game makers are shifting their design paradigm from pushing existing hardware limits for a fantastic gaming experience to succumbing to creating games that just adequately run on Pentium 90s and 8MB RAM. Virtually all new Windows 95 titles need 16MB RAM to play, otherwise their performance is significantly diminished. Upgrading a system to accommodate the better games is a costly venture. Upgrading a 4MB or 8MB 486/66 to a Pentium OverDrive with 16MB of memory can cost as much as $500 to $700. The fastest OverDrive processors lack the power to keep pace with the most power-hungry games, which then necessitates a PCI-based motherboard upgrade and most likely a new PCI-based local-bus video and drive controller cards for a few hundred more dollars. The market's slow sales will serve to inform high-end game vendors that their system requirements are too high. One option for users with lower-end system components are the 'bargain' re-released older titles.
Publication Name: PC Entertainment
Subject: Hobbies and crafts
ISSN: 1093-295X
Year: 1996
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Druid: Daemons of the Mind
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Sir-Tech Software's $49.95 Druid: Daemons of the Mind role-playing game has beautiful graphics, but suffers from disappointing game play and annoying quirks. The user plays an unnamed hero magically transported to a mysterious island by druids who want him to find their missing companion. Druid's overall appearance is spectacular. The characters are rendered in 3D, although the color palette is somewhat limited. Combat is difficult and frustrating, and the only the druids converse in voice. Other characters talk in text balloons. Too many of the human characters also look nearly identical. Beginning gamers will find a good deal to enjoy in Druid, but it is likely to disappoint those with more experience and higher expectations.
Publication Name: PC Entertainment
Subject: Hobbies and crafts
ISSN: 1093-295X
Year: 1996
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The Doonesbury Election Game: Campaign '96
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Mindscape's $35 The Doonesbury Election Game: Campaign '96 role playing game makes a fun game out of the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip. The playing simulates a Presidential election in which the gamer is a campaign manager heading a 4-, 8- or 12-week campaign. Users can run Clinton, Perot or other known politicians or create an ideal candidate with 11 personal and 15 political attributes. Various Doonesbury characters are for hire as help and staff. Most of the game is executed from behind the campaign desk where a computer runs daily activities. The game is fun to play and educational. It requires 16MB of RAM for optimum performance and will crash without adequate disk space.
Publication Name: PC Entertainment
Subject: Hobbies and crafts
ISSN: 1093-295X
Year: 1996
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