REVIEW: FATAL DISTRACTIONS by David Gerrold, The Waite Group Press 1994

This book and accompanying CD-ROM contains 87 of the very best ways to get
beaten, eaten,maimed and mauled on your PC.  The CD-ROM contains 180 MB
of games that should keep any moderately active gamer occupied for months. 

System requirements are a 386 processor, 4 megs of RAM, a hard drive and,
of course, a CD-ROM drive.  In addition, many of the games support a mouse,
joystick and soundcard.  But, of course, any serious game-player has all
that and probably much better.

There are text adventures, dungeons, Pac-mazes, tetroids, puzzles, packing, 
strategy and 3-D games galore, including Castle Wolfenstein (with several
add-ons), Commander Keen, Doom and a whole lot more.

Also included is the Adventure Game Toolkit from Softworks.  This is regarded
as the best adventure game engine available anywhere and allows you to write 
your own adventure game.

All in all, FATAL DISTRACTIONS is a wonderful collection of games and great
diversions and $27.00 is a pretty good deal for the serious (and not so
serious game player.

%T      Fatal Distractions
%A      David Gerrold
%I      The Waite Group Press
%C      Corte Madera California
%D      1994
%O      Includes CD-ROM $26.95
%G      ISBN: 1-878739-77-8 
%P      173 pages paperbound
%K      computer games


(C) 1995
Michael Crestohl
Nahant Massachusetts  USA
mc@shore.net

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