Snarf - 1988 - MS-DOS Game Review

[@guutification]

And then you discover that you can shoot and the frustration goes away, just like with digger. cursor keys control your movement A fires a shot to the left D fires a shot to the right W fires a shot upwards S fires a shot downwards Some older version has X for shot downwards. Newer versions have a .DOC file where all is explained. Including the level editor. Played this a lot on my AT machine back then. It had an EGA card and this was 'high res' with a nice color palet on my EGA monitor.

[@msdosgamereviews]

Thanks for the information! I did not know that you could shoot, that does change the game!

[@zorkboy]

My favorite part of this game was the level editor, I recall making a lot of terrible levels with it

[@msdosgamereviews]

Ah I have not played with the level editor, that could add a whole new dimension to the game as well.

[@MM.]

Interesting. I can't imagine this being accessible to many users when it released, since 640x350 apparently required an enhanced EGA monitor, which is given as of the reasons that most EGA games up and including the very late titles retained the 320x200 resolution.

[@msdosgamereviews]

I never thought that you would also need a special monitor. I thought if you bought a computer with an EGA card, you would also buy the monitor.

[@MM.]

@@msdosgamereviews I'd assume it was far more common that people upgraded their existing system with an EGA card, but didn't have the budget for a new monitor, so they continued used their existing CGA monitors in EGA mode 1, limiting the resolution to 200 lines. According to PCGamesN, EGA cards cost the equivalent of $1,400 in today's money when they released, and that's without memory expansion!

[@Bicornis]

This looks vaguely familiar; I think I've played it, can't recall when or where though.

[@msdosgamereviews]

It is not a common game at all, I could not even tag the game title in the video because according to Google it does not exist.