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Shufflepuck cafe princess bejin3/25/2023 ![]() The game is controlled via the computer's mouse. The bat on the playing field bounces a hockey puck between the player and the opponent. When one of the players manages to knock the hockey puck past the opponent's bat, the player scores.After a set number of points the match is over. "Shufflepuck Café" includes nine opponents: *Skip Feeney: A male human in his early 20's. Has just started in shufflepuck and thus very nervous, making him easy to beat. *Visine Orb: A green-coloured alien with huge eyes, who is only about 1.5 metres tall. *Vinnie the Dweeb: A veteran shufflepuck player who keeps his calm and is not easily surprised. His playing style is consistent and thus well learnt. *Lexan Smythe-Worthington: A lizard-like alien, a filthy rich playboy who gets 30,000 credits per year to keep away from his homeworld. He begins playing fiercely and hard to beat, but as play progresses, he sips his champagne, making him inebriated and less focused on the game, thus easier to beat. *The General: A pig-like alien who pretends to be a military general, although all he really is a militaristic gung-ho enthusiast. Recently divorced, he's addicted to shufflepuck, which he plays with fierceness and devotion. *Nerual Ttoille: A non-corporeal spiritual alien. Always keeps his cool and focuses on the game, making him very hard to beat. *Princess Bejin: A woman with spiritual powers. When it's her turn to serve the puck, she uses telekinesis to make it move in a seemingly impossible pattern. When you beat her, she reveals a little bit of her cleavage. In 1990, when a 10-year-old kid thought about video games on a home computer, they would have probably been picturing Sinclair, Amstrad or Commodore.There is a way to predict her serve every time - there are 2 sounds made when she serves, one indicates the puck will change direction and the other means it will continue in the same direction. One brand that tended not to feature in playground conversation was Apple. In fact, my 10-year-old former self was barely aware that Apple existed. The only reason I’d heard of the future richest tech company in the world was my Uncle. He’s a prolific composer of library music and had a Macintosh Classic in his home studio. Being the child of an actor, music tech didn’t impress me much as a kid. I do recall visiting my uncle one wet autumn Saturday and asking him: “Do you have any games on that computer?”įortunately for a bored kid on a rainy day my Uncle was able to answer that he did have a game for me. As he fired up the Mac, I was initially disappointed by the monochromatic display. Playing games in black and white was not something I was used to. I was impressed however by the detailed illustration of the café’s (ironically) colourful characters. The game was originally going to be a shuffleboard sim, hence it not being called Air Hockey Cafe!Īs I looked at the faces of my potential opponents staring back at me, my eye was drawn to the display board at the top of the image. It proclaimed proudly the name of the Current Champion. On my Uncle’s Mac this read: “Some Cunt”. ![]() “What does that word mean?” I asked, wide eyed and oh-so innocent!Īfter quickly navigating beyond this slightly embarrassing moment my Uncle set me up with my first game. Shuffelpuck Café uses a perspective trick to give a somewhat 3D feeling of playing air hockey against an opponent directly in front of you. You can choose to take on a single opponent from the eight occupants of the Café or play them all in a tournament.Įach opponent has various quirks to their game play to test your skills. Defeat Princess Bejin and she’ll provocatively reveal some cleavage When you get the puck past them there is a satisfying smashing sound accompanied by a brief but bizarre animation of the screen cracking where the puck left the table. ![]() This is my favourite part of the game mechanics. The action of sliding the mouse to hit the puck makes the game feel incredibly immersive. Add to this the smooth animation of the puck and the expressive drawing of you opponents and you have a seriously addictive game.īut, oh my god is it hard!! Once you get through the first couple of matches the difficulty really ramps up.
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