Okay, so you get so darn good (sure!) that you beat old Biff in the tournament and become champion. I suggest either removing the mouse pad or getting a 4 foot by 4 foot mouse pad. I got so mad at my mouse cord I could have screamed! You literally will lose control over your mouse, not because of any fault of the game, but because the game enthralls you so much, the placement of the mouse on a mouse pad is secondary on your mind. If ever a game cried out for the Cordless Mouse by Practical Solutions, this is it! If you have such a mouse, get this game immediately. However, reverse and side to side movements DID keep up with my movements. I did notice that you cannot move the mouse extremely fast in the forward direction, as the action on the screen cannot keep up with your movement. Move the mouse forward, the paddle moves forward. The puck moves realistically across the play field, and I could not notice any "scrolling effect" that plagues so many games. The play itself in Shufflepuck Cafe is excellent. All of these effects make the game visually fun to play. Princess Bejin has interesting psychic powers, and Visine Orb cries when he loses. When the game is over, he will fall backwards, passed out from all the inebriations he has had that evening. Lexan Smythe-Worthington for instance, will take a sip from his cocktail and give a drunken hic-cup and wink whenever you put one past him. There are nine opponents in all, each with their own mannerisms, that make the game interesting. Every time you get it past Skip, he congratulates you with a digitized "Nice shot!" With each win, you move on to a different opponent, such as DC3-ALSO, Vinnie the Dweeb, Princess Bejin, and finally the ultimate test - Biff Raunch, current champion. Skip (no relation to Skip, our DRC BBS sysop) is your first opponent, and he is, by far, the wimpiest. The puck glides across the table as if on a cushion of air, and all you have to do is keep it from going past you and breaking the protective glass. In Shufflepuck Cafe, you are the opponent of several aliens in a tournament to determine the champion of the Shufflepuck board. Now, you put both of those great parts of my teen years together and what do you get? A great new game from Broderbund: SHUFFLEPUCK CAFE. Simple, elegant and no longer in many arcades because arcade owners found that four video games could earn four times the number of quarters and take up the same amount of space as one Air Hockey table. Remember Air Hockey? You had a little red paddle, a four inch puck that rode on a cushion of air and your task was to defend your goal. Ok, now that you have the bar scene in mind, place the famous non-video arcade game Air Hockey in your mind. It was a Hollywood classic scene, and several movies have tried to steal it.most recently, Star Trek V. All of those strange creatures, some almost human, some far from human, all playing together in the bar. Shufflepuck Cafe by Tim Holt (El Paso) Imagine the bar scene from Star Wars. All other publications must obtain written permission from Unicorn Publications, 3487 Braeburn Circle, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, Phone: (313) 973-8825 before using this article. NOTICE: This article originally appeared in the February issue of Atari Interface Magazine and may be freely distributed or reprinted in non-profit User Group publications as long as the article's author and Atari Interface Magazine are credited AND this notice is reprinted with the article.
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