Paratrooper

The Good
There was a 'booter' version of this (for the c64), which I played. I remember playing it for long periods of time (when I was around five years old) and thinking it was the coolest thing since sliced bread.

The Bad
However. I played it again about a year ago for nostalgia's sake and it wasn't as awsome. The enemies approached to rapidly, and the controls were too inadequete, and I always died within five minutes. Maybe I just lost the joystick mastery of my youth playing all those silly adventure games.

The Bottom Line
A fun diversion. But short on longjevity.

The Good
I never liked this game. There were two games called Paratrooper on the HD of my 286 and this was the one I never liked. (The one I liked was a GW-Basic game where you tried to land the paratrooper on platforms of different sizes.)

The Bad
I didn't like the fact that they could have made the game WAY better - the Commodore 64 Paratrooper game I used to play for some reason didn't use any more colors than CGA had, and the C=64 certainly didn't have the memory or speed of an IBM PC of those days, but I still enjoyed the Commodore version a lot more. The graphics in Paratrooper (PC) are really small and generally lame, the game doesn't offer very much in the way of options (on the C=64 you could choose between a stationary and a moving machine gun, rapid or single action fire, etc), and the controls aren't very endearing: I don't see why you shouldn't be able to stop the muzzle from moving except by shooting - the AA guns I've used certainly didn't require you to fire in order to do that.

The Bottom Line
This is not a classic game. It has bad presentation and unrewarding gameplay. Many people would think this constitutes a classic, but I think it just means it's a waste of disk space, even if you have a 30 gig HD!

The Good
This game reminds me a very old Atari game by the name of Atlantis, but since it's been ages since I played it, I might be wrong. Basically the game is very addictive and challenging, with hours of gameplay -- until it finally gets to you, then you shelf it, and once every now and then you rediscover it and relive the classic.

The Bad
The graphics are very amateur (even for a CGA game), and the game is too repetitive and after a while it simply annoys you.

The Bottom Line
A true classic, one of those games you simply have to experience.