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**** 8-Bit Games Reviews ******************************************* PAGE ***
\ / elcome to our second 8-Bit games round up. In this series we will
\ /\ / be looking at some of the games available on the
\/ \/ 8-Bit machines (C64, Vic 20, Speccy, Master System, NES etc.).
We show the game overview, publishers, price, year of release,
and the quotes from the boxes of the games. On to this disks
selection...
Rating system is out of a maximum of 10
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Big Mac - The Maintenance Man
Mastertronic 199 Range
1985
£1.99
Quotes:
Ministry of Defence - Confidential data - Authorised personnel only
Internal Memmo
To:- 007¾ FROM:- Z
Mission Code Name - Light Bulb
Agent Code Name - Big Mac
Agent's Cover - Maintennance Man
Mission - To achieve complete shut down of enemy power station
Data Currently Available for Mission Light Bulb
Intelligence has assessed that there are 15 power vaults. Once you have
broken into the enemy security system the air supply is automatically
switched off. The air meter will keep you informed of the air you have
left to complete your mission. The security system within the station
itself will also be activated upon entry, so be on your guard! You will
also gain an extra life for every vault you complete up to a maximum
of 4 lives.
You may also start a game in any power vault that you have already
reached before by pressing 'Y' after the game has re-started. Each
time you press 'Y' you will move up to the next power vault.
Page :- This game is really cool. I have been playing it since 1987 and
still can't finish the bloody thing. The game involves you running
around rooms and you must reach the exit in them, but you must avoid
hammers from the roof, machines that shoot bullets at you from walls,
moving platforms, platforms that fall away when you stand on them
and much, much more!
Rating: 9
Commodore 16/+4 Version Tested
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Cave Fighter
Blue Ribbon
£2.99
Quotes:
Potholing used to be such a lonely hobby. Dangerous but lonely!
That's one of the reasons Pothole Pete, who you control, took up
the hobby in the first place
All this changes when you find a new and challenging cave. You
make good progress in the enterance hall but your light seems weak.
Suddenly the stillness is swept aside by the calls and screeches of
many hideous creatures woken by your lamp.
A rock fall means that the only way you can escape is by fighting
through the chambers one by one. With only limited battery life,
your journey soon becomes a race against time as you dodge and
shoot creatures which bar your way.
Page:- This game is quite fun for a while, you go through the levels
and you must shoot the monsters, there are ladders and ropes to
swing on and there are puddles you can fall in. The only problem
is it gets to hard.
Rating: 6
C64 Version Tested Also available on C16/+4
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Rigel's Revenge
Bulldog Software
1987
£1.99
Quotes:
Harper and Elliot together formed one of the greatest newsgathering
teams of the 22nd Century. Thier coverage of the Re-unification War was
carried out by every major Federation comm-network, as the Fleet troops
brought the insurgent colonies back into the Federation's grip.
Then, one day - in his quest to stay ahead - Eliot went to far. He
pursuaded Harper that they should become agents for the Alterian Corps,
an influential group dedicated to the cause of peace. In return for their
work, the Corps would guarantee them scoop after scoop. Thier mission
was to go to Rigel V, where one region still held out against the Federation
troops. The rebels claimed to have a Doomsday Machine and would wreak
the ultimate revenge if the Federation refused to withdraw from the planet.
Elliot was smuggled in by the Alterian Corps as a Rigellian trooper. His
mission, to discover the whereabouts of the Doomsday Machine and report
to Harper, who was to follow one week later, in his true role as a front-
line reporter.
Harpers instructions: to meet Elliot, at night, in a certain backstreet
in the occupied sector of the town...
At the end of Part One, you will be asked to save your game position
for Part Two. You should do this several times on a fresh cassette
and then reset the machine. Having loaded Part Two, you will be
prompted to load your data from Part One. You will only need to do this
one. When Harper dies or you quit Part Two and the game restarts in
the same way as the first half.
Page:- This game certainly has a gripping story line. It is a very good
text adventure to play if very hard. It may just be me, but I can't
even get out of the dark alley, it keeps responding with things like:
HARPER STUMBLES AROUND IN THE DARKNESS, or YOU CAN'T SEE. When I
enter commands like NORTH, or LOOK. There are around 50 words it
reconises. You can even put in rude words that are not listed in
the inlay card like PI*S, or SH*T which it responds with, NOT HERE!!
in red text. This is definately one of the better adventure games
around.
Rating: 8
Commodore 128 version reviewed, also available for C64
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The Acornsoft Hits Volume 1
Acornsoft & Superior Software LTD
1985
£9.95
4 Game Pack, Monsters, Magic Mushroom, Planetoid, Maze
Maze
Maze is a real-time game with fast 3-D graphics.
Find your way around the mazes which make up the security system inside the
top secret instillation of a rival company. To obtain the secret informat-
ion you are looking for, you must search as many of the levels as you can,
moving between them in the computer-controlled lift.
The corridors are patroled by robot guards armed with rechargeable guns
who will shoot you on site, if you can't shoot or avoid them. So you
must stay alert at ALL times.
Page: - Bloody hell! This game is an excellent graphiced 3-D adventure
where you wander around in real-time 3D. A MUST!
Panetoid
Action Stations! The Aliens are landing! Flying over the planetoid surface
your laser-ship speeds to the rescue, firing laser missiles and dodging
the enemy and their shell-fire. Save the life-forms while fending off
raiders, mutents, bombers, cruisers, spores, and megacytes. Lightening
refelxes are required to play this game - the fastest ever seen on a micro!
Page: - It's Defender. What more can I say, it is an exact arcade replica
with the laser fire and hyper-space!
Monsters
Page: - This is a version of the excellent C16 game Hektic. There have been
other variations of the game I bet but the C16 one is the only other
one I have seen. The game basically involves you climbing ladders to avoid
the beasts, you then dig at a sutible time and the monsters fall down the
hole, you then put the soil back on top of them and they fall down and
die. There are monsters that have to be knocked down 4 holes!
Quotes:- Pursued by monsters along walls and up and down ladders, your
only hope of survival is to outwit them by trapping them in holes which
you dig in their path. You can score extra points by dropping the monsters
through several levels, and the further you get the more you can
score, as the monsters vary and become more devious.
Quite an exhausting business, so keep and eye on the oxygen level which
drops during each screen and eventually runs out, whereupon you will die.
You have three lives however, and can earn another one by scoring 3000
points.
Includes score, ladder of high scores, excellent graphics and sound effects.
Rating: 10
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And I'll see you in the next issue with a great review of Gun Law for the
C+4. See you then!
Nick.
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