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628.0. "ORB 3D ***WARNING*** THIS GAME IS HIGHLY ADDICTIVE***" by AIMHI::KELLER (Wherever you go, there you are) Fri Apr 19 1991 12:05

I rented a graet game the other day. It is called Orb 3D. It comes with 3D 
glasses. Luckily these aren't necessary to play the game because they are 
uncomfortable and make my head hurt. Bassically the game is a series of 
puzzles. The instructions say that there are 30 levels. I got through level 15 
by 1:00 this morning. 

You are a space ship called the Orb Mellenium(sp?) and you are fighting 
battles against an evil wizard who has control of a black hole and is sucking 
in ships and planets and solar systems. Your job is to defeat the wizard. To 
do this you must solve a series of puzzles, which range from hitting shapes to 
beating the computer in Tic Tac Toe, Bowling and pool plus many many others.

The screen is a grid of dots 8 wide and I think 15 high. You maneuver by 
pressing the A button to dive. You are going in circles around the perimeter 
of the black hole and you dive to hit the targets you want. On the outer 
borders of each side you have a force field which you can move up and down 
with the arrow keys. If you leave the perimeter of dots and hit the edge where 
your in a spot where your forcefield isn't you lose lots and lots of fuel. As 
you hit targets you get credits, which can be used to purchase fuel at Vern's
space port. You get to Vern's by pressing the "B" button. Once there you have 
to maneuver your space ship through holes in the space port. Vern is a true 
capitalist pig. He has a tendancy to close ports just as you are about to go 
through them. You need 1000 credits to get fuel, though if you don't have that 
many you can get credit from him once. After you pay off what you owe him you 
can get credit again but you can't get any more credit until you pay off what 
you owe him.

Personally I've found this game to be...



	Fun, Frustrating, Challenging and above all ADDICTING!!!!!

Have fun,

Geoff