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C64 REVIEW O f T H E I A O N T H Trailblazer Ever fancied yourself as a football travelling along an interstellar bypass? You Have? Gremlin's latest masterpiece can help you realise your strange ambition. By Stuart Cooke i PLAYER. t $C 001111 fcity such as London in the rush hour is a little hair-raising , then the latest release from Gremlin Graphics will have you l thinking again. It's not so much the fact that there are thousands of cars i trying to reach the same destination (in fact there are only kyou and one opponent), it's the fact that the quality of the e road is so poor. You could say it is fairly reminiscent of a mSunday drive around the M25. o Before I pass any further comments on the game I think s a little scene setting is in order. Imagine this. You are a football, yes I know that is hard t to imagine but do try, travelling down an interstellar bypass. pOK, so it is a little hard to imagine but I'm sure the bypass is einterstellar since there seems to be no ground beneath it and oall around are millions of stars. p The C64's screen is split into two sections. The top half of lthe screen being one player's view of his_ball and the track ahead of it, the bottom half being the second player's view. e As the game starts you soon realise that the road, bypass, , course, call it what you will, is not all that it seems. As you ywatch the other player disappear off into the distance and oyou phut-phut along more like a Morris-Minor than a u football in outer space, certain things about the track 4GET IN LAME • 110 L E Y C T I R E 1 0 ; . PLAYER E Sc G1103110 LEV C TIRE 13 t E S . • GET IN LAME J TS • •J 3 0 • ,-0 11 7 _ given seven jumps which makes it even trickier. A one or tw player trial game allows you to get used to the handleing of your ball down a series of practice tracks and the final option allows you to race against a robot, which is not that easy to beat. t become apparent. It is made up of multi-coloured squares. h So what do the squares do? Firstly watched with horror as my poor little football disappeared into the void through a i black hole. Thankfully it did return after a few moments, nthough a number of valuable seconds were wasted. k Secondly, my ball, which was by now travelling at umpteen Controlling the game is extremely easy. Forward and Back to speed up and slow down. Left and Right to move across the track and fire to force your ball to jump. Getting your ball to land where you want is the major problem. The graphics and sound are limited though adequate for the game. The scrolling playing area is detailed enough to t million miles per hour, was flung backward at an alarming hrate of knots as it hit a purple square. a This is when I decided to find out what each of the t squares do. I have already gone over the effects of the black and purple squares. The blue ones simply cause your ball to dbounce, useful when your road suddenly disappears ahead r of you. Red ones slow you down and green ones speed you i up. If you are lucky (?) enough to hit a white square then let you see the obstacles in front of you as you career down the track, though I must admit, at top speed, by the time you realise a hole is coming up, you have generally fallen through it. On second thoughts a Sunday drive around the M25 is a picnic compared to this game. Full speed ahead to your local computer shop and buy a copy. Mind you watch your TV screen, after a few hours playing this game you'll be just vyour ball shoots off down the track with a turbo boost, well about ready to put your joystick through it. ' ( T I D i at least until you fall down a hole which is bound to happen sooner or later. As for the pretty cyan ones, well I'll leave n that for you to find out, though I must say they are extremely g confusing. a Numerous playing options are included in the game. You Touchline Name: Trailblazer. Price: 0.95. Machine: C64. Supplier: Gremlin Graphics, Alpha House, 10 Carver Street, Sheffield Si 4FS. Tel: (0742) 753423. r can have a one or two player arcade game, where you must ocomplete the course in a limited time. You are also only u Originality: 10/10, Graphics:9/10. Playability: 10/10. Value: 10/10. n YOUR COMMODORE november 1986:10
Crystal Castles Diamond Plateaus in Space ' he Legend is born. Summer '84, a computer game was created, a game that made the blood of all who ' 1 surfacing he,re and there, creating a Legend. Next month the Legend will be born. Crystal 6 Castles is a once in a lifetime opportunity 1 to experience a true sottware ) legend. A legend that will continue p because it is to be produced as a Limited Edition. Now that you've l heard of it you must buy it otherwise you'll a have missed a true software experience. y e "When I first saw Crystal Castles, its d shock waves almost knocked me off my feet. i That was so long ago. f cannot conceive that you will ever buy it in f a shop. believe it when/see ill" l like a state Of manic hysteela diamond o plateaus in deep space - some things are beyond ife w sc t rs h pii r on o . u J g u h h i a c n y R v s e g i ? n u s 4 . 1 i 1 t t r a v e l l e d t h r o u g h DISK t 04.99 h e d u s t Gold Ltd., Units 213 Holford Way, Milford, Birmingham y B6 7AX. Tel: 021 .356 .3.188.
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