Re: [Plib-devel] Mario Kart Like Game

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Christian Mayer wrote:
> 
> Steve Baker wrote:
> >
> > ...MarioGolf - well, my Son (Oliver) has been interested in a 3D minigolf game
> Hm you called it crazy golf in an other mail, so I'm a bit confused.
> In Germany we've only got 'Minigolf' (small artificial tracks) that was
> called crazy golf in England (Brighton). The English minigolf (real golf
> just scaled down) isn't really known in Germany (at least in the part
> where I live).

Crazy-golf - you play with just a putter around short courses that are
full of silly traps and tubes that you have to hit the ball through.
For example, on our local course there is a 15 foot tall monkey - you
have to hit the ball up a ramp and into his mouth - but you have to
time it just right because his hand is motorized and keeps getting
in the way.

No special rules - it's just fun.

> > ...MarioParty
> 
> I've never heard of that. What's it about?

Imagine a computerised board game where you roll dice to move.
Landing on certain squares takes you off to play certain *simple*
3D games for which you can earn money or collect useful bonuses.

Mario Party is a collection of perhaps 50 or 60 really simple 3D
games linked by the board game.

The games are things like rowing a boat in a race by quickly
wiggling the joystick left and right - or there is a field
with about 30 sheep in it that are running around quite
quickly - and you have to count them (pressing one button
to increment your count and another to decrement it) - or
there is a turntable spinning and your character is running
around trying to pick up coins while fighting the centrifugal
effect.

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