Donkey Island

** Maggie / Donkey Island preview / 210 words **

Preview of an arcade adventure action game due for release around now...

We first caught sight of Donkey Island last summer at the Birmingham Atari Show in the form of a brief technology demonstrator that had been lying around unseen for a year. The programmer, Ed Cleveland, was so encouraged by the feedback he got at the show he resolved to turn it into a full game and release it, probably as Freeware or Shareware.

Donkey Island is the response of the Atari platform to PC based adventure games in the same vein as 'Day of the Tentacle'.
Surprisingly the graphical perfection will run on any Atari with 1Mb memory or more, including the Falcon, and there will be sampled sound effects on all machines - in contrast to most new productions where only STe/Falcon machines get the full treatment.

The plot revolves around one man's attempt to re-discover Donkey Island, the most famous Atari game, that got stuck in a development cycle somewhere and was never released. Along the way he encounters various puzzles, sharply observed barbs aimed at the current computer scene and encounters with various 'famous' Atarians from the demo scene.

Rating: 95%

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I'm NOT bored... really!