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ODDWORLD: ABE'S ODDYSEE (C) GT INTERACTIVE

Supplier.....: TAI PAN/REDRUM        Release Date...: 10/24/97
Cracker......: N/A                   Game Type......: BOARD GAMES
# of Disks...: 73 x 1.44             Game Rating....: 95%

REQUIREMENTS: Win95, P120, 16 MB RAM, 250 MB HD.

RELEASE NOTES

In a world run by ruthless meat barons, your entire race is about to
become pie filling...Unless you can escape RuptureFarms and make it
through the most inexplicably challenging gameplay in the known universe.
Sound Odd? Welcome to Oddworld. A new kind of game and a brave new world
of interaction. Communicate with real characters. Possess and blow away
your enemies. Solve wicked situations. ODDWORLD: ABE'S ODDYSEE takes
every game genre you've ever seen and blends them into a smorgasbord of
pure gaming delight. So trust in Odd, and you'll never be hungry again!

Features:

~ An amazing new style of interactive gaming...It's A.L.I.V.E. (Aware
Lifeforms In Virtual Entertainment).
~ Stunning, immersive, feature-film-quality graphical world of
environments and realistic characters with REAL personalities.
~ Totally unique and innovative gameplay using features like GameSpeak,
the ability to communicate with other characters in real-time, and
ShadowPlay, the ability to hide in the shadows.
~ Mindblowing puzzles requiring you to use BOTH sides of your brain
One for 'twitch' skills, and the other for actual brainpower!

Ripped:

~ Video.

Installation:

Run INSTALL.EXE to decompress.  Once it has finished, run ABEWIN.EXE
to play the game.  Enjoy and expect much more from your favorite games
group real soon!

GROUP NEWS

The month of October marks the 1 year anniversary of PARADiGM! And what
better way to celebrate than by releasing some of the year's best games?
Stay tuned folks for more from your favorite games group

*PDM WEB CONTEST*

NOTE: WE ARE UPPING THE PRIZES!!

We decided that since we're doing a contest that demands the best, we
are going to do it PARADiGM style! As a result, we have increased the
incentives for the winner of the contest.

~ First Place: Full boxed copies of Lands of Lore 2/Fallout/NCAA 98/
Total Annihilation/Logitech Surfman/Assassin 3D controler.

~ Second Place: Full boxed copies of Postal/iF-16/Dark Angel with
a Space Orb 360 (c) Spacetec.

~ Third Place:  Full boxed copy of MS Flight Sim 98 with Gamepad Light
Eagle Max Joystick (c) Gravis.

There is a first for everything, and here at PDM, we are about to try
a contest for the BEST Paradigm Web page! Use everything you can get
your hands on (Java, Flash, Director) and create the BEST PDM PAGE!
First place prize: Webmaster for Paradigm and official membership. 2nd
and 3rd will also be posted on the page (where the new webmaster
delegates to put them). Either send your page topdm97*paradigm*org or
join #paradigm on EFNET and give it to a member. Have your HTML's ready
by 11/15/97 (No need to download to enter).

Last note:

Be sure to check out Angry Elmo's new PDM TECH page on WWW.PARADIGM.ORG
if you are having any problems with any PDM games (old or new)

Thanks AE!

PARADIGM SITES

ET                 WHQ                  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX    ET Staff
PC                 USHQ                 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX    PC Staff
BB2                EHQ                  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX    BB2 Staff
HoT                CHQ                  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX    HoT Staff
AV                 GHQ                  XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX    AV Staff
CO                 HQ                   XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX    CO Staff

HOW TO REACH US:

WWW.PARADIGM.ORGpdm97*paradigm*org

[10.24.97]
"Just When You Thought You Had All the Answers, We Changed the Question!"