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easier for the consumer, to select a wine to go
dinner he or she may be preparing.
“We may find it will not be used at all.”

With 300 menus and 1,200 recipes in its memory, the
computer also will suggest to would-be connoisseurs
which of the 500-odd wines available in Manitoba suits

their chosen cuisine.

Harold Irwin, manager of the commission outlet in a

city mall where the computer will be tested, said

his staff have been doing their own tests of the electronic

wine expert for about a week.

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an interview. “Depending on its acceptance and how it
works, a decision will be made whether to put it in more
locations.”

The Electronic Gourmet, designed by Winnipeg-
based Home Management Systems Inc. and unveiled at
one commission outlet, is designed “to make it a little

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Irwin said when customers approach the machine, its
screen asks a question and provides several answers in
terms of what kind of meal they are serving or what wine
they are interested in.

After several question and enswer sessions — cus-
tomers indicate.their answers by pressing the approp-
riate button on the typewriter-like keyboard — the com-
puter narrows down the syeene choice through the
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said ‘about various appeared the answer on the computer's video ‘screen.

“We recommend serving this wine with rack of lamb,
roast veal, pheasant, lobster, oysters or caviar.”

And with a $3.85 bottle of Hochtaler, perhaps the

province's most popular wine, it sreewene! “meat mat
mousse and aspics, poultry or meat .

The machine failed to rosoninseudl any wine as an

appropriate beverage to quench the taste of a fiery bow!
of chili.

“I would suggest a medium dry red wine,” Irwin

joked. “But a bottle of cold beer would probably go better
with chili.”

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Home computers are reputed to be terrific games
machines, keeping children and adults endlessly enter-
tained, But a computer is only as good as the software
you plug into it — the instructions that make 4 screen
come alive in color and sound with space invaders or
Pacman.

There are plenty of duds among the thousands of
slickly d game prog) le for every
popular brand of computer. Most of the software costs
between $30 and $60, a price liable to leave the purchaser
of a poor game feeling ripped off. Products of lasting
entertainment value are rare.

Here's a rundown and personal ratings for some cur-
rent games:

Quest for Tires ($45), supplied on a cartridge for the
Adam computer, is produced by Sydney Development
Corp. of Vancouver, which has the exclusive world rights
to use characters from the comic strips B.C. and Wizard
of Id for computer games.

Unfortunately, this game's use of B.C. characters
may be its only claim to general appeal. Thor moves along
on his prehistoric unicycle with the object of rescuing
another B.C. character from a dinosaur. The player uses
the controls on the computer joystick to make Thor jump
over rocks and duck under tree branches, while the action
moves boringly from left to right.

Unimaginative use is made of the key ingredients of
sound effects and graphics, and there is little variety in
the game's overall design.

Rating: D.

Hard Hat Mack ($52.50)) was designed by two San
Diego high school students for Electronic Arts, a Cali-
fornia software company, and is supplied on disk for
Apple, C and Atari

This game is addictive. Use the joystick to send a
little construction worker around the girders of an unfin-
ished building, riveting pieces to fill the gaps. Other
figures try to block your path, but you can take an ele-
vator or jump on a springboard to continue.

Complete the first level and then go to a different
part of the construction site, where you have to step on to
conveyor belts and hoists and pick up tool boxes. There
are at least six levels, offering sufficient challenge for a
long time.

The theme is unusual, sound affects appealing and
graphics superb. I can't help thinking that even people
who generally don't like video games would enjoy this
one.

Rating: A. an 20 .

Poltergeist ($40), supplied on-cartridge for the Radio
Shack color computer, is a good example of misleading
packaging. The box has a spooky design, showing a little
girl silhouetted in front of a glowing TV. “It knows what
scares you,” it says on the package, but there's nothing
seary about this game.

The premise is that a girl has been kidnapped from
her bedroom and the player must rescue her. A joystick
is used: to negotiate a stick figure’s route through a
neighborhood street maze, collect various objects and
avoid being run over by traffic.

Other levels follow, but the player's interest quickly
wanes. If the player makes a mistake, he starts over at
the first level, a fatal flaw in the game's design. Graphics
and sound are poor.

Rating: D.

Kickman ($33), a Commodore product, is supplied in
cartridge format for that company’s C-64 computer.

The player controls the movements of a circus clown
on a unicycle who tries to catch on his head balloons
falling from rows above.

The trick is to prevent balloons from hitting the
ground, kicking them if necessary up over the clown's
head to join others raining on him.

Kickman is moderately entertaining, with attractive
graphics and a pleasant melody that plays throughout the
game. However, it can be mastered fairly quickly, and
‘any game that does not keep challenging the player will
not hold his interest long.

Rating: C.

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