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  1. @BEGIN_FILE_ID.DIZ
  2. .------------------------------------------.
  3. |             * THE OFFICIAL *             |
  4. |         AMIGA MAJOR GAMES CHARTS         |
  5. |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
  6. |           Issue #9, July 1996            |
  7. `------------------------------------------'
  8. @END_FILE_ID.DIZ
  9.  
  10.  
  11. PREFACE
  12. ~~~~~~~
  13.  
  14. As the summer arrives it takes its toll on the games side of things.
  15. That doesn't mean we don't get any though, because as you will see we have
  16. had a few :).. In fact we had loads including fakes :)..
  17.  
  18. I have been considering giving Polish and such releases full points, if I get
  19. enough replies I might add them in. Since there is no competition for Polish
  20. games Wanted Team release them and so there might be 6 games from Poland
  21. which will mean WT get 48 points? So what I have done is given foreign games
  22. which are not considered REAL MAJORS 3 points and the major foreigns 8.
  23.  
  24.  
  25. I thought after the last issue I would maybe get some feedback, but so far
  26. only 1 person has replied! So here is my EMAIL again:
  27.  
  28. BLOOD@DCANDY.DEMON.CO.UK
  29.  
  30.  
  31.  
  32.  
  33. .-------------------------------------------------------------------------.
  34. |O|   A M I G A   M A J O R   G A M E S   R E L E A S E   C H A R T S   |O|
  35. `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
  36.                             Issue #9. JULY 1996
  37.                            --------------------
  38.  
  39.  
  40.  
  41.  
  42.  
  43.  
  44. THE RATING SYSTEM
  45. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  46.  
  47.  
  48.  
  49. English Major-Game Releases......................................: 8 Points
  50. Foreign  "     "      "     (NOT released in english before).....: 8 Points
  51.  
  52. Released-First-But-Fucked-Up.....................................: 5 Points
  53. Major Crack Fixes................................................: 3 Points
  54.  
  55. Updates/Budgets/Data/Other Foreign...............................: 3 Points
  56. Licenseware......................................................: 1 Point
  57. Minor Fixes (no cracking faults).................................: 2 Points
  58.  
  59. English Game Of The Month........................................: 3 Points
  60.  
  61. CD32 games already released on floppy with no difference.........: 0 points
  62. CD32 games released fully working not released on floppy.........: 8 points
  63. CD32 games released on floppy but different......................: 5 points
  64.  
  65.  
  66.  
  67.  
  68. .-------------------------------------------------------------------------.
  69. |O|   A M I G A   M A J O R   G A M E S   R E L E A S E   C H A R T S   |O|
  70. `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
  71.  
  72.  
  73.  
  74.  
  75.  
  76.  
  77.  
  78.  
  79.  THE JULY GAME RELEASES
  80. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  81.  
  82.  
  83.  
  84.  
  85. .-------------------------------------------------------------------------.
  86. |O|   A M I G A   M A J O R   G A M E S   R E L E A S E   C H A R T S   |O|
  87. `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
  88.  
  89.  
  90.                    _ ____________________________________
  91.                   / I \_ ___\   /   / ___\__/____  \_ __/
  92.                  /  _  / __)/  /\  /\  _//  \|  /  // __)
  93.                 /   ! /  ! /  / / /  \ |/    |  \  \  !  \
  94.                 \___! \____\____\____/ |\____|  |\__\____/
  95.                 ----|     \-sHy!---|   |-----|  |PreSENtS
  96.                     `------'       `---'     `--'
  97. .-----------------------------+-----------+----------------------+--------.
  98. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points |
  99. `-----------------------------+-----------+----------------------+--------'
  100.  Leading Lap           ECS/AGA  English     Reflex Interactive          5
  101.  Leading Lap               AGA  English     Reflex Interactive          5
  102.  Brian Lara Cricket 96 ECS/AGA  English     Audiogenic                  8
  103.  Kick Off 96           ECS/AGA  English     Anco                        8
  104.  Wembley Soccer        OCS/ECS  English     Audiogenic                  8
  105. .-------------------------------------------------------------------------.
  106. | Total Releases: [05]                                 Total Points: [34] |
  107. `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
  108. It appears to me that the fellows over in Hellfire seem to be managing
  109. the scene single-handedly but it seems they are starting to get some healthy
  110. competition now, lets hope it makes the chart more interesting....
  111. For the Leading Lap I decided not to give them full points mainly because
  112. I feel that although they are majors and have been reviewed everywhere
  113. the price of the game was greatly reduced putting them almost in budget
  114. price but not quite, sorry for whom I upset cos of this but I decided on
  115. 5 points for the games each.
  116.  
  117. .-------------------------------------------------------------------------.
  118. |O|   A M I G A   M A J O R   G A M E S   R E L E A S E   C H A R T S   |O|
  119. `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
  120.  
  121.  
  122.  
  123.                       .______  ______________
  124.                      T| ___  \/ _ \ _  _ / _ \  Brings
  125.                      H|   |  /  _  \/  \/  _  \
  126.                      E|_____/___|__/____\__|___\  ToDaY
  127.                      .___  .__.     .__._____.__. ________
  128.                      |  .\ |__| _|\ |__/  ___|__|/   ____ \
  129.                      |  | \|  |/ | \|  \___ \|  |  |  \/ . \
  130.                      |  |  \  |  ­  \  |  |  \  |  |  /  |  \
  131.                      |_____/__|_____/__|_____/__|_____\__|__/
  132.  
  133. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  134. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points  |
  135. |_____________________________|___________|______________________|_________|
  136.  
  137.   Thunderdawn          ECS/AGA  English     LICENSEWARE                   1
  138.   Splat!               ECS/AGA  English     LICENSEWARE                   1
  139.   Climbing Up          ECS/AGA  English     LICENSEWARE                   1
  140.   Outliner                 AGA  English     LICENSEWARE                   1
  141. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  142. | Total Releases: [04]                                  Total Points: [04]
  143. |___________________________________________________________________________
  144.  
  145. 4 more Licenseware games. Although they released games like Pool 2009
  146. and Chicken Run these were PD so not counted in the Major-release charts.
  147. I would advise Data Division to stop releasing the PD shit as it is damaging
  148. their reputation. Lets see you peeps put out some real major games.
  149.  
  150.  
  151. .-------------------------------------------------------------------------.
  152. |O|   A M I G A   M A J O R   G A M E S   R E L E A S E   C H A R T S   |O|
  153. `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
  154.  
  155.  
  156.  
  157.  
  158.                                L_I_N_C_O_L_N
  159.  
  160. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  161. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points  |
  162. |_____________________________|___________|______________________|_________|
  163.  
  164.   HatTrick             ECS/AGA  GERMAN      Ikarion                       8
  165. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  166. | Total Releases: [01]                                  Total Points: [08]
  167. |___________________________________________________________________________
  168.  
  169.  
  170. Well I used to think that LINCOLN used to be in Paradox or Hoodlum, and now
  171. he goes and releases this all by himself? Hmm still a fucking awesome German
  172. major release.
  173.  
  174.  
  175.  
  176.  
  177.                  ______  ____    ____/_    _____ _ ______/_
  178.                 .\_ __/__\__ \__/ __/__  _/ ___/___  __ /
  179.                 |   l/  \_ _ _/_  ____/_.\_____  \_   \/
  180.                 |  _/    / |    \_ \    |   _/    /    \_
  181.                 l___    /__|     /______l____    /______/
  182.                  _/____/   l____/ cRACKED:_/____/ .cC!
  183.                  /                        /
  184.  
  185. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  186. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points  |
  187. |_____________________________|___________|______________________|_________|
  188.  
  189.   Jimmys Fant. Journey ECS/AGA  English     Lionheart                     3
  190.   Rocketz 1.38             AGA  English     The Farm                      3
  191. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  192. | Total Releases: [02]                                  Total Points: [06]
  193. |___________________________________________________________________________
  194.  
  195. First release from Crest - a budget game from Melon Dezign.
  196. Second release from Crest an UPDATE to the existing REGISTERED version
  197. out of Rocketz, its not called Magic Rocketz and the last version that
  198. was put out in 1994 was REGISTERED. Still, its an update so 3 points
  199. for that. Last version was 1.0 this is 1.38.
  200.  
  201.  
  202.  
  203.                       ___ ____ ______________ __  __
  204.                      _\_ \\__//  __/\__/\_ _//  \|  |_
  205.                     |   \ \  \\  \  |  \_/ \/ "  \  / \
  206.                     |_____/_  /\____|_  /_  /_|__/____/FuN
  207.                   .--v-^-v--\/^-v-^--^\/^-\/v-^---^-v-^---.
  208.                   | C · O · R · R · U · P · T · I · O · N |
  209.                   |-^--^--v-^-v-^--^--v-^---^-v-^--^-v-^--|
  210.  
  211.  
  212. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  213. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points  |
  214. |_____________________________|___________|______________________|_________|
  215.  
  216.   Alien Breed 3D2     ECS/AGA  English     Team17/Ocean                 8+3
  217. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  218. | Total Releases: [01]                                  Total Points: [11]
  219. |___________________________________________________________________________
  220.  
  221. Well simply amazing, the tools dudes come back to shock with the release
  222. of 1996 - gets the vote for best game of the month! Fuck all the lame
  223. fixes that got released - this is 100%.
  224.  
  225.  
  226.  
  227.  
  228.  
  229.                  _________.__.______________  _______
  230.                  \__// \ \___ \      | \__   / . \  \/  /\__/
  231.                   \// : \/  |  \/ |  _  \/  /  |  \    /rd\/
  232.                    /  |  \  :  /  :  :   \  \  :  /    \
  233.                    \__|__/\_|_/\__|__|___/\  \___/  /\__)
  234.                +------------- [ amiga ] -\__/-\__/[thrash]+
  235.  
  236. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  237. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points  |
  238. |_____________________________|___________|______________________|_________|
  239.  
  240.   Kick Off 96 Memory Fix        English     Anco                          2
  241. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  242. | Total Releases: [01]                                  Total Points: [02]
  243. |___________________________________________________________________________
  244.  
  245.  
  246. Although the game worked fine on my machine I know that was was a memory
  247. problem in the game so 2 points it is then.
  248.  
  249.  
  250.  
  251.                    ____ ______ ____   ______  ______ _____
  252.                ._ /   /_\_   /_\  /___\_   /._\_   /_\  _/.
  253.                | /    _  /    _  /  _  /____|  /________  |
  254.                |_\____|__\____|_____|____|  |____|AdN! ___|
  255.  
  256.  
  257. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  258. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points  |
  259. |_____________________________|___________|______________________|_________|
  260.  
  261.   Dal x                ECS/AGA  French        ?                           0
  262.   Card Games Deluxe        AGA  English       Logic Systems               0
  263. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  264. | Total Releases: [02]                                  Total Points: [00]
  265. |___________________________________________________________________________
  266.  
  267. Krupps. Never heard of this group..cracked by 'NONE' they put, well of course
  268. you are not going to crack PD games as they have no protection!
  269. CGD was old anyway! maybe you should rename the group to 'Crap'
  270.  
  271.  
  272.  
  273.  
  274.  
  275.                 ________.____/\______.  ________/|__._._._
  276.                /  ____ ¬| _____)___ ¬|  \___ ____. ¬|¬|¬| )
  277.                \___ ¬\  _  /  ¬\  /  |  /  _  / ¬|  | | | \
  278.                /_____/__|  \_  /___  |  \__|  \___  l_____/
  279.                        ¬`---'\/tGø`--'    ¬`---' `--'
  280.  
  281.  
  282. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  283. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points  |
  284. |_____________________________|___________|______________________|_________|
  285.  
  286.  Risk                  ECS/AGA Danish       ?                             0
  287. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  288. | Total Releases: [01]                                  Total Points: [00]
  289. |___________________________________________________________________________
  290.  
  291. Well this is also very lame. An old game and in Danish as well!. As they said
  292. in the info file, its old so why release it? 0 points!
  293.  
  294.  
  295.  
  296.  
  297.  
  298.  
  299.  
  300.                              B A D   K A R M A
  301.  
  302.  
  303. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  304. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points  |
  305. |_____________________________|___________|______________________|_________|
  306.  
  307.  UFO: Enemy Unknown Plat. AGA  English      Microprose                    0
  308. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  309. | Total Releases: [01]                                  Total Points: [00]
  310. |___________________________________________________________________________
  311.  
  312. Again this is a budget/compilation version & no differences from the old one.
  313. 0 points for it, platinum just means the price is reduced and the game is
  314. put in a new box, but there are no differences to the game itself, maybe
  315. -TCB! should check the game before releasing it?
  316.  
  317.  
  318.  
  319.  
  320.                 __.  __ ______.____________________________
  321.                |  | (__)\_.  /|__   _/ __/ \____  \  _/___/
  322.                | _|_|  |/ |_/ | \| |/  _/ . \ _/ _/ |  __/_
  323.                |  | \  /  | _ _  \ /   |  |  \\  \  |__ d!/
  324.                |_____\ \___ | |__/ \_  |_____/_\  \___/__/
  325.                -----|__|---\|_|--|_|-\_|--------\__/-------
  326.                (-        faster   than     light        -)
  327.  
  328.  
  329. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  330. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points  |
  331. |_____________________________|___________|______________________|_________|
  332.  
  333.  Samba Partie          ECS/AGA GERMAN      Sayanara                       3
  334.  Der Boss              ECS/AGA GERMAN      Media                          3
  335.  Kargon                ECS/AGA GERMAN      Acp/Tcp                        0
  336. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  337. | Total Releases: [03]                                  Total Points: [06]
  338. |___________________________________________________________________________
  339.  
  340. Well the first releases for new group Lightforce, and 2 games it is. After
  341. 2 previews Samba Partie is the final sales version. They got beaten to
  342. Kargon so no points for that. Only 3 points per game as they are not what I'd
  343. call major games.
  344.  
  345.  
  346.                    __    __ ______ ______ ______ ______ ___
  347.                   / /__ / // __  // __  //_  __// ____// _ \
  348.                  / // // // __  // / / / ¯/ /  / __/_ / / \ \
  349.                 /  ¯  ¯ // / / // / / /  / /  /    ¯//  ¯¯¯ /
  350.                 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ ¯¯  ¯¯ ¯¯  ¯¯   ¯¯   ¯¯¯¯¯¯ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
  351.                        ______ ______ ______ ________
  352.                       /_  __// ____// __  // _  _  /
  353.                       ¯/ /  / __/_ / __  // // // /
  354.                       / /  /    ¯// / / // / ¯¯/ /
  355.                       ¯¯   ¯¯¯¯¯¯ ¯¯  ¯¯ ¯¯    ¯¯
  356.  
  357. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  358. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points  |
  359. |_____________________________|___________|______________________|_________|
  360.  
  361.  Draco & Cocco                 POLISH       World Software                3
  362.  Fears CD32                    ENGLISH      Manyk                         0
  363. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  364. | Total Releases: [02]                                  Total Points: [03]
  365. |___________________________________________________________________________
  366.  
  367.  
  368. This was a nice Polish game similar to Rodland. The release of Fears was
  369. exceedingly lame...no difference and the fact its also been out for 6 months
  370. on CD32 makes this a release worth nuking! Actually I was going to give their
  371. rather kewl russian Database 1 point just for the fact that it is so useless!
  372. A russian Database in Polish...
  373.  
  374.  
  375.                                  DD!
  376.  
  377. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  378. | Game/Title                  | Language  | Company              | Points  |
  379. |_____________________________|___________|______________________|_________|
  380.  
  381.  Kargon                ECS/AGA GERMAN      Acp/Tcp                       3
  382. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  383. | Total Releases: [01]                                  Total Points: [03]
  384. |___________________________________________________________________________
  385.  
  386. Well I dont know who this group is but they got a german game out!
  387.  
  388.  
  389.  
  390.  
  391. THE JULY RELEASE CHARTS FOR ENGLISH MAJOR RELEASES
  392. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  393.  
  394.  
  395.  
  396.                    _ ____________________________________
  397.                   / I \_ ___\   /   / ___\__/____  \_ __/
  398.                  /  _  / __)/  /\  /\  _//  \|  /  // __)
  399.                 /   ! /  ! /  / / /  \ |/    |  \  \  !  \
  400.                 \___! \____\____\____/ |\____|  |\__\____/
  401.                 ----|     \-sHy!---|   |-----|  |PreSENtS
  402.                     `------'       `---'     `---
  403.  
  404.  01. HELLFIRE.............................[ 05 Release(s) ] 34 Points {01}
  405.  02. DIGITAL CORRUPTION...................[ 01 Release(s) ] 11 Points {--}
  406.  03. LINCOLN..............................[ 01 Release(s) ] 08 Points {--}
  407.  04. LIGHTFORCE...........................[ 03 Release(s) ] 06 Points {--}
  408.  05. CREST................................[ 03 Release(s) ] 06 Points {--}
  409.  06. DATA DIVISION........................[ 04 Release(s) ] 04 Points {03}
  410.  07. DD...................................[ 01 Release(s) ] 03 Points {--}
  411.  08. WANTED TEAM..........................[ 02 Release(s) ] 03 Points {--}
  412.  09. ANTHROX..............................[ 01 Release(s) ] 02 Points {--}
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  421.  
  422. THE ALLTIME TOP 10 1996 CHARTS FOR ENGLISH MAJOR RELEASES
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  433.  01. HELLFIRE.............................[ 25 Release(s) ]162 Points {01}
  434.  02. DELIRIUM.............................[ 04 Release(s) ] 43 Points {02}
  435.  03. TRISTAR & RED SECTOR.................[ 04 Release(s) ] 35 Points {03}
  436.  04. QUARTEX & CLASSIC....................[ 04 Release(s) ] 16 Points {04}
  437.  05. CRUX.................................[ 02 Release(s) ] 16 Points {05}
  438.  06. FAIRLIGHT............................[ 03 Release(s) ] 15 Points {06}
  439.  07. PRODIGY..............................[ 05 Release(s) ] 14 Points {07}
  440.  08. LSD..................................[ 02 Release(s) ] 13 Points {08}
  441.  09. HOODLUM..............................[ 02 Release(s) ] 13 Points {09}
  442.  10. DIGITAL CORRUPTION...................[ 01 Release(s) ] 11 Points {--}
  443.  
  444. Hummm this chart is starting to look a little embarrasing as Hellfire seem
  445. to be running away with it bigstyle.
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