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seems to take itself too seriously, and I don't know whether to believe the introduction or not. The counter mix is sort of unbalanced; the fog counters are of little worth, while the blades are the main attacking force." He had similar thoughts about
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held "a bit more interest", and despite the asymmetrical forces, "The result is a nicely balanced game which almost succeeds in overcoming the flimsiness of its premise." Overall, Ritchie gave the two games an extremely poor rating of only 2 out of 9.
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92:(1967). One player sends a small military unit into the machine to seek out and destroy its two computer brains, while the other player controls the machine's robots and other defenses.
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