Issue 28: Feb 2003
Features
- | Foreword
- | Tip of the day
- | Atari Community Alive and Well
Reviews
- | Reservoir Gods
- | Stuntman
- | Lords of Chaos
M@ilbox
News
| Reservoir Gods Matthew Bacon reviews heaven To support the recently launched community news, site reviews and links portal ATARItoday, here is one of their latest web site reviews. To read more reviews and catch the latest news headlines (from Atari.Org, AtariAge, AUN, Atari-Source, ST-Computer and Atari-Home), visit http://www.ataritoday.com. Reservoir Gods http://www.reservoir-gods.com To many Atari users - particularly Falcon030 owners - the name Reservoir Gods is synonymous with great intros, demos and games. To call this crew talented is quite honestly an understatement! Since their formation in 1994, Reservoir Gods have developed a variety of software including a fully featured paint package (GodPaint), emulators (GodBoy and GodleNES) as well as a host of demos and games. Reservoir Gods founding members were Mr Pink (code), sh3 (gfx/music) and ripley (gfx) but has since grown to include the talents of aegir (code), damo (music/code), griff (code), msg (music), neo (gfx) and stratagem (test/gfx/code). Their web site is more than somewhere you can download their software. The homepage includes detailed news about the site and the crews latest releases as well as links to the nine subsections of the site; games, emulate, maggie, code, utils, news, intros, demos and scores. The games subsection includes a brief description of each of their games (credits include; Double Bobble 2000, Chu Chu Rocket! and SuperFly) accompanied by a screen-shot and link which leads to more screen-shots, a detailed description of the game, download link as well as a features and system requirements list. Comprehensive stuff! Fans of Nintendo's GameBoy and NES consoles will be pleased and impressed to learn that Reservoir Gods have created emulators (GodBoy and GodleNES respectively) of them for the Atari Falcon030! Copies of which can be found in the emulate subsection. The maggie subsection includes copies of every issue of the popular diskzine, Maggie (Reservoir Gods designed the shell), while the code and util subsections include a host of exclusive downloadable goodies including GODLIB (libraries for PureC) and R.A.G.E. (a compatibility tool for Nemesis accelerators). A nice addition to this site is the scores subsection where you can marvel at the amazing scores of the greatest GodPey, SuperFly and SantaFly players from around the world. Are you in their league? Talking with Mr Pink, I have learned that Reservoir Gods "currently have a number of new Atari titles in development". Although he would not divulge any further details, he did say that "you will see some very cool things from us in 2003 :)". I can't wait! The Reservoir Gods site reflects their passion found in their games and demos, so is without question, a worthy of winner of ATARItoday's Site of the month award. Review by Matthew Bacon
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