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Merlin’s Walls and Pesco Yars’ Revenge
The guys at Telegames has
Ebivision released released a Game
two new games Boy version of the
for the Atari 2600 classic favorite,
as their follow-up “Yars’ Revenge.”
to last year’s re- It’s a fairly straightforward con-
lease, “Alfred’s version of the original with an
Challenge.” Early added bonus level. The object is to
on, show goers fire through a shield, which protects
formed a long line the Qotile enemy, and then destroy
at Ebivision’s table in hopes of him using your Zorlon Cannon.
snagging the limited edition (and The Qotile has two weapons of de-
autographed) cartridges, Merlin’s fense. The first, a slow moving
Walls and Pesco. homing device, constantly ad-
Merlin’s Walls is a difficult and vances towards your ship; the
confusing first person maze game. other is a Qotile that has trans-
You have 80 seconds to earn formed into a Swirl. If Yars is hit by
“redemption” by finding your way either, he will die.
out of a maze, where you have After the Qotile has been de-
been trapped by “Merlin.” Bounda- stroyed, an explosion results, leav-
ries are difficult to discern, so it be- ing a large but temporary debris
comes a challenge to maintain any field. If you can find the Ghost of
sense of direction. Also, the game Arcade 2000 Yars in this field, you’ll be trans-
was programmed in a fashion that ported to an asteroid field where
requires the player to turn their Ever dreamed of having a collec- you must attempt to touch the
television on its side. Not a very tion of full size arcade games in ghost, giving you a higher energy
your home? Obviously space and yield for later levels.
money are the main barring fac- The only downside to the game
tors, but the folks at Arcade 2000 is that the entire playing field does
have a solution. The Arcade 2000 not fit on a single screen. Unfortu-
is a full size arcade cabinet for your nately, you need to use your Yars
PC, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, to “scroll over” to the enemy loca-
NES, Super NES, and Dreamcast tion. This makes planning a decent
videogame systems. strategy quite difficult. Being hit by
The PC model features a built-in Swirls with no warning is fairly
19" Super-Multisync monitor and common.
speakers. Overall Rating: B-
Pesco The most impressive feature,
easy task with a 25+” set. however, is the arcade style con-
While we applaud the release of trols. It features two 8-way sticks
new games for the 2600, we be- to play games such as Robotron Nyko’s Wormlight
lieve Merlin’s Walls misses the and Crazy Climber, and a standard
mark. four-way joystick to play games like If you own a Color Game
The other release from Ebivi- Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. There Boy, we’re sure you’ve experi-
sion is the Pac-Man clone, Pesco. are also buttons galore, so you can enced the frustration of no back-
Although graphically superior to the enjoy arcade-authentic Space In- light source being included.
2600 version of Pac-Man, the vaders, Asteroids, etc. They’ve This often makes it ex-
game play remains very much the even thrown in some pinball button tremely difficult to see the screen
same. The degree of difficulty has flippers on the side as a place to and can cause you to hold your
been upped a bit, but it still boils plug in your flight yoke, steering Game Boy at impossible angles to
down to playing a fish-like Pac-Man wheel, or even a Tron joystick. catch light. Of course the result is
game. So, what will this model set you that you often catch glare instead.
back? $1,550 + shipping. Not Nyko has solved this problem
Merlin’s Walls really that bad considering the cost with the Worlmlight. The light at-
Overall Rating: D of a full arcade. If you’re on a taches to the Game Boy, requires
budget, you can also order the con- no batteries, and has a lifetime
Pesco trol panel on its own. lighting source. It is also an excep-
Overall Rating: B- Go to www.arcade2000.com for full tionally durable item, surviving the
details. many clutches of children at the
Visit www.ebivision.com CG Expo.
Visit www.nyko.com for details.
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