Reviewing methods and games

edited December 2008 in Games
I've just been reading the WOS entry on Stonkers, and see that it was awarded three "K"s by the BIG-K magazine.

Good job they never reviewed North and South, eh?

Tobo
(Never even heard of that mag before!)
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  • edited December 2008
    Theres f**k all wrong with stonkers , its a decent rts that gets the piss taken out of it - mostly unfair , that game was programmed when others were making crap space invader / centipede clones ! Give it a rest !

    Rant over !
  • edited December 2008
    Give it a rest !

    Blimey!

    Lemme re-read what I wrote. I may have skipped a page here.
  • edited December 2008
    You have to put it into perspective. Granted if Stonkers came out in 1990 it would have got probably 20% in Crash.

    Back in 1983 the games for the Speccy were very simple, Stonkers was pretty advanced for its time i thought. Yeah its not perfect but compared to lots of the other simple shoot em ups it was excellent.
  • edited December 2008
    And it was a real-time strategy game. A great merit in 1983!
  • edited December 2008
    Sorry, are we winding Tobo up? I feel I ought to check. :)
  • edited December 2008
    I thought Tobo was making a joke about Ku Klux Klan in his post, but perhaps I have completely misread it and he was instead giving Stonkers a slating...
  • edited December 2008
    I thought Tobo was making a joke about Ku Klux Klan in his post, but perhaps I have completely misread it and he was instead giving Stonkers a slating...

    Yeah, me too. Given that the topic is about the rating system and that he mentioned North and South (a game about the American civil war) I figured that was pretty obvious.

    That said, Stonkers certainly has copped more than its fair share of criticism over the years.
  • edited December 2008
    Matt B, Danforth and Jumping Stack - thank you!

    I thought I was going mad for a minute!

    Yes, it was a KKK / North and South quip!



    T.
  • edited December 2008
    Tobo wrote: »
    I've just been reading the WOS entry on Stonkers, and see that it was awarded three "K"s by the BIG-K magazine.

    (Never even heard of that mag before!)
    Never heard of it?! I've still got the free blank tape they gave away with Issue 1 :) (It's not blank any more, though.)
  • edited December 2008
    As a newby to the forum, I am only just learning about the many stonkers jokes. But I have to say, way back when, I thought it was a really refreshing change and it probably got quite a few people into strategy games.:grin:
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