COMPACT DISKS ARE BACK
!
I remember when I first had my Ste and I copied my first cracked games... that
was almost 12 years ago ! Some intros and music will keep hanging in my mind
until I die, for sure :) I was quite amazed to see new stuff from Dbug then
especially since I cannot remember WHEN I actually leeched a new compilation !
Now let's get straight to the point : with the internet and the very few new
games or unreleased prods, it seems quite useless or impossible to bring new
and interesting compilations... Not that the good old feeling is different,
indeed WE are different now (even booting on floppy seems kinda boring now).
Anyway let's have a look at what these FOUR new volumes offer !
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Dbug 171
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Team New Season Edition by Showaddywaddy | Menu Coding by Cyrano Jones
Heartland 2000 by Showaddywaddy | Menu Compilation by Showaddywaddy
Herman by Showaddywaddy | Music by Scavenger (Heaven)
Mine-Sweeper by Cream |
Hum first I don't like soccer :) Then I guess it sums up everything about this
compil... Heartland isn't a bad game but it's been out for a while now. Herman
is pretty nice too, I played it for a while and had some fun. Mine Sweeper is
also very nice but again long time spread... The main problem with such compil
is that it requires to be unpacked on a floppy. I'm definitely not going to
use a floppy while I already have some of these games on my harddrive, would
you ?
Old school intro and old content then :) It's nice to see a series reanimated
like this but to be honest, I'm not convinced about the interest. Well some
people like to collect stuff so here is another item for their colly. Not much
more to say.
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Dbug 172
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Zombi + by Showaddywaddy | Menu Coding by Neil of Cor Blimey Not 'Arf
Humeur Vitree by Showaddywaddy | & Showaddywaddy
| Menu Compilation by Showaddywaddy
| Music by Frazer/TSC & David Whittaker
Another old school intro ripped from an AUTOMATION compil, at least the
idea is nice. Then again, you can wonder about the offered stuff. I didn't try
Zombi to speak the truth, but I doubt it's worth wasting another floppy. As for
HEMOROIDS humeur vitree, it's surely a nice demo but it was already included in
another compilation, this time - ST COLLECTION - by Typhoon. After checking my
harddrive (yeah I know how useless it is to put compils on a harddrive :), I
found it in ST COLLECTION 10... released in April 1997 ! Waouh I didn't think
it was THAT old !! Maybe some day, I feel brave enough to put that compil onto
a floppy and check Zombi but if it's not good then better consider this issue
as wasted space.
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Dbug 173
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Chaos by Showaddywaddy | Menu Coding by Evil/DHS
Clacker by Showaddywaddy | Menu Compilation by Showaddywaddy
Jet Set Willy + by Showaddywaddy | & Mug UK
& Mug UK | Music by 505 / Checkpoint
This volume comes with fresher air as the intro was brought by Evil with new
chip by 505 ! It features Evil's great "dithered" technique already seen in the
great intro to UCM 16 (if I remember well :). It shows a DBUG logo while two
blobs are merging in the background, creating brilliant flare effect. Really
nice stuff, tho already seen in the UCM intro mentioned above.
As for content, erm I tried a few games but didn't get interested in them
too long. One of them is REALLY crappy, can't remember if it's Jet Set Willy.
It looks like an 8bit game, and a poor one !! Except for that detail I didn't
spend more time browsing this compilation...
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Dbug 174
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Boston Bomb Club by Hot-Knife | Menu Coding by Evil/DHS
Seigemaster by Hot-Knife | Menu Compilation by Showaddywaddy
Robin Smith's International Cricket | & Mug UK
by Hot-Knife | Music by 505 / Checkpoint
Another new school intro by DHS welcomes us ! Once again, it's another
effect seen in UCM 16 intro but it still looks so nice ! As you can see above,
a nice DBUG logo is shown while a background picture is bumpmapped. Dunno how
Evil manages to play with bitplans but it's the best bumpmapping effect ever
done (respect to tSCc's brilliant bugblasterbeast or something :). It also
comes with a new chip by 505, cool !
This time I didn't even had a look at the content : Boston Bomb Club is a
pretty game that I already have on floppy and the rest doesn't sound so
attractive, a German sounding game and a cricket simulation ?? Bah sorry, not
for me, later maybe....
LAST WORDS
Enjoying new stuff is always nice, but I'm not sure about the correct use
of the word "new" here :) Except for HERMAN which is pretty cool, other games I
tried weren't that good nor that "exclusive" to me. Of course, it's nice to see
a legendary crew come back to life, I guess I'd love to see new Replicant stuff
but still, only the intros would seem interesting to me. I have a plea tho
mister Showaddywaddy : I WANT to play STARDUST on my STe harddrive ! That would
be something cool as the game is among the best ever done on STE ! I completed
once but I feel like playing it again, that is if I don't have to juggle with
three floppies :)
As for the two intros coded by DHS : though not quite new either, they are
still as brilliant as ever and enjoy new tunes by 505 ! Definitely the best
part in this CDs ! Dunno about you, but I have to confess that I only kept
these two intros on my harddrive. You can get them from DHS homepage, check the
2002 releases corner.
I guess nostalgic people will happily enjoy these 4 compact disks and I'm
ok with that but for the rest of us it doesn't even wake up the hype :( Btw all
compilations and more can be downloaded from dbug.atari.org of course !
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