JAGUAR: Phear
From: John Daniels (ah499@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)
Date: 04/30/95-01:54:55 PM Z
From: ah499@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John Daniels)
Subject: JAGUAR: Phear
Date: Sun Apr 30 13:54:55 1995
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:: Volume 4, Issue 2 ATARI EXPLORER ONLINE 6 February 1995 ::
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||| Surfing the Jagged Edge
||| By: Dimitri Mark LaBarge
/ | \ GEnie: AEO.6 CIS: 71501,3353 AOL: dimitril
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//// A Look Into Phear
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One of the most interesting games that came out of the recent WCES was
the "Anti-Tetris on a Sphere" called Phear, by H20 Productions.
There's been a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for this title, but
faith and begorrah, not many specifics. Well, leave it to our ace Jeff
Minter to generously provide a look at this third-party effort.
Phear is a weird kinda first-person-perspective Tetris-kinda
game. I played it for the first time at Atari yesterday, and
it's pretty neat. There's this sphere in the middle of the screen
made up of a patchwork of areas of different colours. Using the
joypad you can rotate the sphere in any direction. The objective
of the game is to eat away the colours on the sphere, revealing
the glowing core. Each level requires that you expose an
increasing amount of contiguous core segments - 2x2 for the
first, 2x3 for the next, etc. To do this, you are given a block
- say, green 2x2, or blue 1x3. The shadow of the block appears
on the sphere, and you have to rotate the sphere so that the same
colour segments are 'below' you, under the shadow, then you press
the button and the sphere kinda comes up and kisses you and the
blocks are removed. Get it wrong and the block is added to the
surface of the sphere. All the while the sphere moves towards
you and if it gets too close, or you allow your mistakes to stack
up too high, you lose.
Sounds weird but it's pretty much fun.
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