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Reviews for Dracman (#1483)

Review by emjones55343 on 02 Dec 2012 (Rating: 3)

I actually wrote this software, but I will still give it a low score! When at university I wrote 3D Rotator for YC ( I was trying to emulate the tank battle game (badly)). After university I was looking for something to do and I suggested I could write a game for the people at Your Computer and they seemed interested. I wrote the game in a period of 3 days. The biggest issue was getting it to run in 16k. There was a computer shop nearby and while I was writing it I would chat with the owner of the shop about the game. After it was printed I was approached by Atari to sell an improved version to them. In the meantime a guy from the computer store took an injuction out on me that I had to sell it to him since he had offered input. So I just did that for 4500 GBP which was more than Atari was offering anyway. Since the guy was such a creep I never bothered to clean up bugs. That is why 3D Dracman exists and with all its bugs!

Review by The Dean of Games on 07 Dec 2012 (Rating: 3)

Nice game Marc. Well Done. By the way, 4500 GBP in euros is approximately 5600€ this days. In 1984 was a lot more, are you sure about this values? If programmers were getting payed this high, I really regret not having jumped on the bandwagon ;)