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- El-Fish -
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Alexey Pajitnov created one
of the most wellknown games of all time called Tetris. Another game but
on the complete other end of the popularity charts is called El-Fish. El-Fish
is an aquarium simulator where you have a whole host of options ranging
from just decorating an aquarium to breeding and evolving your very own
fish.
There are two fishtanks already set to go when you start the game which
is nice but come on where's the fun in that. You can obviously start by
beginning with an empty tank and filling it will plants and such. There
is a big variation in the type and you can change the size of the plants
yourself, the shape is randomized a lot each time you choose the same plant
so no one plant has to be the same but you can select to duplicatie one
you like. Then there's things like moving objects, rocks, creatures and
ofcourse the fish.
The fish are obviously the most important part of the game. You start with
a couple of fish but it's easy to catch new fish which are as varied as
anything.Once you catch some you like you can name them and then store them
for later. The fun part is trying to get entirely new species which you
can do in two ways. Evolve fish which takes a single fish and goes through
a lot of different possibilities in color and shape which you can select.
You can also breed two different fish and then the program will calculate
what the offspring would look like. Some of the species are extremely colorfull
but sometimes it's fun just to try to get a single color fish.
The windowslike interface is simple enought to use though ofcourse it's
not like todays power and memory hungry beasts. The worst part is animating
the fish which took ages (hours or sometimes days) back when the El-Fish
was released on that hardware. It still takes a couple of minutes for each
one but I guess that is doable.
Like the game itself says there is no object to the game and no way to win
either. It's still quite fun trying all the different variations but some
of them are rather weird. For it's uniqueness the game is worth trying but
it is quite an acquired taste. I love fish though so I might be biased somewhat.
Overal rating: 7/10
Erde Kaiser
El-Fish was released for one system here are some notes:
| DOS |
Released
in 1993.
Though it runs in DOSBOX the game is still not very fast when animating
fish, it takes a couple of minutes for one fish. |
| Others |
I read
somewere on the internet that there is a Mac version but most sources
I have don't believe this it true. |
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Date added |
Apr-25-2012 22:03 |
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El-Fish |
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Developer |
AnimaTek
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Publisher |
Mindscape
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First released |
1993 |
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Genre |
Misc
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Download |
MS-DOS, filesize: 3497 Kb
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Links |
Pike Fishing - a site about pike fishing.
zoetwater vissen - a site about freshwater fish (non English!)
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Manual |
No manual available
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Solve / Docs |
No solve available
No extra docs available |
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Jack Charlton's match fishing
Big game fishing
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