On that picture, he seems to be a member of the KKK

Now here's a psychotic screenshot of plok

I think this game could produce some nice avatars...

Edited by Johann67 at 23:20 on March, 06th 2005

yep, he looks kind of...psychotic.
I hadn't seen the box for it yet, I only found the game in 2000 or so. Therefore, thanks, Tapuak!
Posting news as we speak, two days should be enough and the news entry stays where it is anyway

Mr Creosote: Believe me, I've fiddled with the ZSNES settings until I'd tried just about every combination of settings, but the lines kept appearing

At first, I thought that the scanlines option was the culprit, but it wasn't.

Plok posted.

Looks like an evil General marching up and down in front of his evil army. Not much opposition to be seen

He looks like a creature out of a very evil drug trip.

Is it just me, or does this Plok guy look extremely evil on the box?

Plok box scan (back)

Plok box scan (front)

Have you tried fiddling around with ZSNES' video config options? You shouldn't choose a video mode with 'S' attribute, because that distorts the picture. Also, nothing should be ticked under 'Scanlines'.

New review acknowledged, but let's give the former one at least a few hours to stay on top of the news

now aint I annoying?

Yep, cut manually-from a black background

I've tried ZSNES and it always gives me trouble.
It gives me a distorted image with black lines running horizontally through it.
It's OK for multiplayer, but otherwise not very usable for me.
Therefore, I use SNES9X, which can make .avi's but no screenshots.
I hope the screenshot pixel thing isn't too big a problem...

Newspost on the way.

Perfect I'm just wondering why the sizes of the screenshots differ by one or two pixels each. Have you cut them out manually? If so, there have to be easier ways. ZSNES does have an internal screenshot function, for example - just a little hint to save you work.

Anyway, the game has been added, now it's up to you to make a newspost. If you want to link to the game from there, check out the one I made in your name - it's actually really simple.

I hope these are better.

The e-mail containing the game is on its way.
I apparently did distort the image, so I'm now making new screenshots.
Will post them here when done.


Sadly, again, it's not a true member of a genre. If I compared it, the games would be vastly different. Next game will fit a category better.

Right, I've gone through the files with a fine brush now:

-Please only hit the return / enter key if you actually want to have a forced line break (e.g. at the end of a paragraph, after a subheading and so on) - not after every single sentence or even in the middle of a sentence. [Edit: I should add that this is just a general remark for the future. I could easily fix that for this one, of course]

-No 'window decorations' on screenshots which don't belong to a game natively, please. [solvable, if point after next is invalid]

-Screenshots should be in the original resolution of the game. While it can sometimes be ok to make them smaller for the sake of reducing file size, don't blow them up to several times their original size artificially. [solvable, if next point is invalid]

-Are you sure you haven't distorted the picture in the screenshots? If I remember correctly, SNES games usually don't use the 1.333333333 aspect ratio like currect PCs do.

-Don't forget to make use of the game comparison feature

And finally:It doesn't matter at all whether I like it or not. As long as it meets the minimum criteria of length and understandable language, everything will be posted. I'm not dictating people's opinions.

Edited by Mr Creosote at 23:56 on March, 03rd 2005

The public upload script had been badly abused, so I removed it quite some time ago. Try E-Mail. Hint: http://www.goodolddays.net/forum/help.php?query=formatting

Make that seven.

I have the game, but it's about 1100 kb, too big to attach here. The upload page seems to have vanished from the site (or I'm blind-again) so we'll have to negotiate another way of transfer.

If you like the review, that is.

Oh, I managed to get my hands on Paint shop Pro 9, so screenshots are in .png-format.

Ah, the irony. I mentioned in my review "it hasn't left my harddrive since", and now it got deleted along with all of my games when I deleted the annoying "sierra desktop utilities" that got installed along with half-life. I think that uninstaller is BAD NEWS. But anyway, I had backups of everything but my saves.
Once I've got everything back where it should be, I'll write another review. Just 8 more to go...

Yes, it's 15, of course. 17 if you count application reviews, of which he made two really great ones. To be fair, I should tell you that someone behind you is currently threatening your position, though