A Little Bit Sensible Posted by Peter Parish, 143 days ago
Last Train to Transcendental
Slowly chuffing its way past each and every Sensi variant though was thi ... what? What do you mean “Sensible Trainspotting” had nothing to do with football? Some of the trains were full of fans heading to away matches, obviously. An entertaining mini-game given away by those gentleman scholars at Amiga Power, this was, unfortunately, nothing to do Irvine Welsh.
That disappointment aside, it was far more fun than a trainspotting simulation really had any right to be. Functioning a little like a graphical form of bingo (except with balls shaped like gigantic steel contraptions full of people) it was the players task to spot the correct trains and tick their numbers off a list within an allotted time limit. Premature ticking was harshly punished with a clock-bothering penalty. There were no sinister aspects like horrible teenagers being splattered into bone-mush by zooming engines--this game was just as it appeared, a charming farewell from Sensible Software which, like everything mentioned here, seemed to personify their approach to “the industry” and the agreeable attitude they had towards their fans. Bless ‘em!
Now, let’s all go and furiously practise our aftertouch technique.
