1984 Melbourne House (UK)
by Philip Mitchell, Clive Barrett and Russell Comte
Mugsy is a strategic management gang wars game, set in Chicago's 1920's.
The main purpose of the game is to make money (the perfect portrait of any mob). And smuggling booze seems to be the main activity Mugsy's gang go by. If the operations run smoothly, money will start oiling the gang machine, your hoods will get payed, unless you want to get murdered by a mob "Brutus", you will keep your "customers" happy and even have enough income to bribe the police.
The dialogue scenes are set just like any text adventure game, and are designed very rapidly, which makes the game flow easily, and the graphics are high quality, but not so much as the sequel two years later. Graphically the game is quite good, although the dialogue balloons always annoyed me, but as for the gameplay I always found it a tad boring, play a few turns and you've seen all the screens, and the same goes for the decisions you make. The game lacks a bit more action and emotion, after all this is a gang wars game, not just a trading game.
