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THIS GAME ROCKS!!! :w00t:

This is one of those games you let your six year old children play.

INTERESTING FACT: that annoying little PEEP mentioned in the review, turns into a non-stop internal speaker siren when you dont run the game in DOSBOX (ie its running WAY too fast) and if you are unlucky enough to run it in the early hours of the morning your girlfriend is likely to get up and hit you over the head because she thought the smoke alarm was going off, I should know, I have the bruise to prove it.

As for this being a game youd let your six year old children play, I wouldnt have the heart, the look on their faces when the NEW game they were expecting turns out to be AMAZING MAZE and not the next installment of LEGO STAR WARS would be distressing.

This ones going straight into the trashcan before I punch my monitor, nice example of how games have progressed though (thank god!)

PLEASE dont tell me there was a follow up and that its the next ABANDONIA entry, arghhhh!!!!!!!

*LOL*
Luckily, my Girlfriend lives in Italy. ;-)

Seriously, I didn't even need to download and play the game to see it's bad. The Screenshots of the so called "Labyrinths" were enough for me.

So it's no good as a game, but it sure as hell can annoy people (and make you want to stab your eardrums out)

I have a strange feeling that even from that distance she'll be awoken by the PEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPP from hell if you wish to try.

It's true, this is a terrible game and once I saw the little thumbnail of it on the front page I didn't even need screenshots, I WAS one of those poor six year olds that was unlucky enough to play this game.

I bet DONOVAN W. FOSTER ,who produced this game, would get quite a complex if he read this forum, he he he, bet he wakes up in a cold sweat...after nightmares of hordes of small dissapointed kids pounding on his door demanding their hard begged pocket money back.

Oh wow... I had this game a long time ago, but it never worked... I'm glad it didn't.

This Donowan J. Foster must be a really pervert old guy.
Who could call this game AMAZING ???!!!

Come on, guys, stop the Foster-bashing. :)
The idea of the beep IS to be annoying.
The less beeps the more points you get.
Testing your reflexes: That's the aim of the game.

Maybe not on a 3 GHz CPU.

I heard they were going to do a port of it for the xbox 360.....cant wait! :brain:

Wasn't Abandonia ment to be only for the godies? Why do we accidentally put up some awful games?

Or this one has some hidden qualities?

Well, Abandonia is quality before quantity, but we make an occasional exception. You have to reach the bottom to appreciate the top, right :)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(marko_river @ Sep 7 2006, 04:17 PM) [snapback]253440[/snapback]</div>Well, public rating is now 2.8 (141 votes). Not to bad :max:
And as Kosta explain in an interview given to German newspaper Die Zeit Abandonia is also some kind of Archive-Museum!

All of this is about gaming history :ok:

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Frederick @ Sep 5 2006, 04:05 AM) [snapback]252829[/snapback]</div>Yes, you are right! I love labyrinth, like supaplex and pac-man, one of favourite game's genre to me!

This is Donovan W. Foster

It was interesting reading all your responses on experiencing my game. I am not rolling over in my grave just yet. or waking up with cold sweats. I take no offense to the repsonses. The game was written probably before any of you were born with technology we had back then. It made it around the world on BBSs back then in the freeware market and I made more than a few bucks. I was then approached by a software marketer in Canada saying they would very much like to market my game for me if I would make it better, like make it run on any computer fast or slow, make it with various levels of play and speed and keep high scores.

I had to dig out my old code and I had better technology from the original I copyrighted in 1983. I upgraded it and did all they asked and copyrighted it in 1990(which is still probably before most of you were born)

It was still the same game with more speeds and it plays on any computer and with high scores. They also wanted a new name so we came up with Labyrinth, it is also version 2 of the original Amaizing Maze.

With that said I can upload the newer version for Abandonia to post if there is some (albiet slight) interest.

Donovan W. Foster

Dear Mr Foster
Abandonia is always interested in acquiring a more up-to-date version, if one such exists.
Please contact Reup, one of our administrators, for login details to the upload FTP.

Welcome to the forum. We're glad to see authors still taking an active interest in their old creations.

Added Amazing Maze v2 as extra, thanks Donovan. :ok:

Thank you for the new version mr. Foster. Finally I've been able to play the game at the speed it was intended to be played at (with emulation one can never tell).

I'm also glad to see that you didn't take some coments made here as a personal insoult and at the same time I'd like to answer all the people who were asking why put something which was marked with such a low mark on the site.

Even though the game is not apealing to me personally (speaking as a reviewer, how gave the low mark), it is still a part of computer history and did contirbute in the development of games people enjoyed later on. After all there are basic control functions (navigating the screen, avoiding various locations on it), which can be seen as the basics of platform games (where you again need to navigate an object around the screen withouth hitting certain places). So in order to understand what we have now, it is importaint to know, where it came from.

Unfortuantely I still have to say Amazing Maze did not convince me. Sorry, it's neither amazing, nor a real maze, so my initial mark (1) stays, but I'm glad to see some other people tend to like it (the public mark is about as high as with some of the most famous adventure games).

I love Abandonia for putting up any game, no matter the quality-there may always be someone who played a game as a kid, and would appreciate a site that leaves out none..so they may just find what their looking for.It's also interesting to see games I never knew of. I say Amazing Maze is well-made, simple gamepkay, but no doubt complex programming

Abandonia...ooooohhm :kosta: