ST Format


Kidney Bean Demo

Publisher: Riverdene Pd
Machine: Atari ST

 
Published in ST Format #39

Kidney Bean Demo

A megademo with lots of little sub-demons featuring all the old favourite effects and nothing original whatsoever. You get a combination of scrolling text, hyperactive chip music, 3D dot balls, a bit of parallax scrolling, wibbly distortions and a painfully slow plasma screen - about a dozen ideas in all.

There's a scrolling 'guide the little sprite over the door' demo selection screen which you can bypass by pressing F1 - then you see each demo in sequence. There's a brief moment of humour when a spoof number where all the effects go wrong.

The only thing that stops it from being completely naff is the fact that the whole thing is written in GFA Basic, so it's clever and fast. Ultimately of little interest to anyone apart from GFA Basic enthusiasts.