Safari Guns
| Developer: New Deal Productions | Graphics: |
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| Publisher: Infogrames | Sound: |
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| Year: 1989 | Difficulty: |
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| Genre: Light gun shooter (without gun) | Lastability: |
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| Number of players: 1 | Rating: |
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It seems rather difficult to imagine a game being created with less effort. An African landscape scrolls by. You’re supposed to take photos of animals (by clicking on them) and shoot poachers (by clicking on them). The only subtlety lies in choosing, within a very short time, the right tool between the camera and the rifle (you guessed it, by clicking on them). The problem is that the pointer, controlled by the mouse, takes far too long to go back and forth between the “toolbar” and the target. They fixed this by giving the player the power to stop time, using the right-click; making the game both finishable and utterly dull.
The “genre” was, however, quite well-represented in arcades at the time. The appeal came mainly from the accessory used: the light gun. There were a few variants controlled by a stick or trackball, but I struggle to imagine their popularity, at least without offering some additional gameplay options, like Cabal did.
Safari Guns features six levels, practically identical (and numbered with two digits to give the illusion for a few minutes).
I recommend the following configuration in WinUAE: “1.3 ROM, ECS Agnus, 512 KB Chip RAM + 512 KB Slow RAM”.
A sequel, barely more inspired, was released in 1990: Wild Life.
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