DC3 serves as a training partner, who can be customised to be as easy or as difficult as the player wishes. He has no weaknesses and only the best players will be able to beat him. A tough, street-hardened biker dude who plays a mean game. When defeated, she reveals a little bit of her cleavage. One of two different sound effects accompanies each serve, indicating whether the puck will move in the same or opposite direction. When it is her turn to serve the puck, she uses telekinesis to float it out to the center of the table and drift it to one side before sending it toward the player. Princess Bejin: A woman with supernatural powers.He occasionally opens his robe to expose a one-eyed alien at chest level, who either smirks or snarls at the player depending on whether he has just won or lost a point. Mimics the player's own shot power and angle. Nerual Ttoille (" Lauren Elliott" spelled backwards): A non-corporeal alien.Recently divorced, he is addicted to shufflepuck, which he plays with fierceness and devotion. The General (also known as Eneg Doowtrop - " Gene Portwood" spelled backwards): A pig-like alien who pretends to be a military general, although he really is just a militaristic gung-ho enthusiast.When defeated, he hiccups and passes out. He begins playing fiercely and hard to beat, but as play progresses, he sips his champagne, making him inebriated and less focused on the game, thus easier to beat. Lexan Smythe-Worthington: A lizard-like alien, a filthy rich playboy who gets 30,000 credits per year to keep away from his home world.While not particularly strong, his playing style is consistent and is a slight step up in difficulty from the two previous opponents. Vinnie the Dweeb: A veteran shufflepuck player who keeps his calm and is not easily surprised.He jitters his paddle all over his end of the table, so that his serves often bounce back and forth on their way to the player. Visine Orb: A green-coloured alien with huge eyes, who is only about 1.5 metres tall and can barely see over his end of the table.Has just started in shufflepuck and thus is very nervous and slow to react, making him easy to beat. Skip Feeney: A short male human in his early 20s, wearing glasses.Shufflepuck Café includes nine opponents: The first player to score a set number of points (usually 15) wins the match. When one of the players manages to knock the hockey puck past the opponent's bat, the player scores. The bat on the playing field bounces a hockey puck between the player and the opponent. The game is controlled via the computer's mouse. The player can compete in a tournament, playing against opponents who visit the Café, or can practice against each opponent to find out their weakness in a single-player match. Win, and you'll earn their resentment.Screenshot from the Amiga version, playing against Princess Bejin Relax, if you lose you'll earn their contempt. The only thing that stands between you and the telephone is eight galactic misfits, an obsolete droid and a few "friendly" games of Shufflepuck. Several pairs of hostile eyes, and a few sets of three, challenge you to enter. You stumble into the room and suddenly it's as silent as the depths of space. A shout of recognition is heard as whatever it was enters the smoke-filled room. Something loathsome scampers over your feet on its way to the activities below. Opening the door you make your way down a flight of debris-covered stairs. The only signs of life seem to be coming from a shoddy structure three doors down and across the street. Now all you need to do is find a phone and a repair sled will be on its way. You exit the Gravway and coast down into the wrong side of town. On the way to close the biggest sale of your career, your brand new Nash Sombrero has blown a capacitor in the reactor valve. Ou are the galaxy's most successful Krypton-3 salesman.
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