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             The Mad Bomber - part of Disk 1195

                  Reviewed by John Ferris

Inform is highly regarded as an adventure writing language and
rightly so. It came into being when its creator, Graham Nelson,
became interested in the run-time format of some Infocom games
he'd been playing. Inform is a clever language, as The Mad Bomber
demonstrates, because this isn't an adventure, it's an arcade
game.

Bomber is a version of that ancient magazine-listing favourite, in
which your aircraft flies across the screen, getting lower at
every pass.  Below is a city represented by coloured columns of
various heights that have to be removed by dropping bombs on them.

As a demonstration of the Inform language, Bomber is impressive
but not unique. Andrew Plotkin wrote Freefall, a Tetris clone a
few years back.  As a game it has a very, very short novelty
value. It worked under DOS, but the WinFrotz program (Win 95)
couldn't display the city.
















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