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HOODOO VOODOO
REVIEWS
its detectors. This could just prove to be a trifle embarrassing
as the planet Venus is only 24 hours away. Because of this,
you, as an agent of ILEA (Interglactic Law Enforcement
Agency) have been briefed to shut down Arachnid whatever
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the cost.
s you are the only one remaining and have been charged with By means of a sophisticated teleport system that the
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the Boopalgrop (1 kid you not) from Krellis IX. computer is incapable of overriding, you have been beamed
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Your first task on arriving on the planet is to pick up and aboard the ship and must attempt to close down each of the
deliver the seven Daggers of Power to the portal opening.
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decks in turn. In order to do this, you must first clear the
There are no problems in actually locating the daggers as a deck of all droids and then access a terminal and attempt to
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arrow gives you the all important clue. You can only discover the correct five port code. You can then move to the
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one dagger at a time and you must avoid or blast next deck by means of an internal teleport system.
, assorted nasties as you travel through the hallways. The onl. The droids must be shot several times before they are destproblem
here is that if an alien happens to be hiding behind a
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pillar when you pass behind it, you lose a life without knowing
or seeing what hit you.
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dying, you get the chance to try and pick up pieces of
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looking for as the necessary items just happen to bc
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would appear, is not exactly over endowed with grey matter.
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the blasts from your gun, he will expire under a hail of bullets E 1 I -
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not surprisingly, it is his destruction that concerns you
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Title: Hoodoo Voodoo. Supplier: Bug Byte, Victory House, you E are 11attempting
this manoeuvre, depeting some of your
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Place, london IVC2H 7N11. Machine: C64. Price: energy
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you hit. You must also avoid bodily contact with
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as 1 their defence mechanisms interact with yours
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4/10. Graphics: 4/10. Pla_vability: 4/10. Value: causing -1a
similar energy loss. This is somewhat annoying as
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when
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you 1 move off the edge of one screen, you have no way
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happen 1 1 to 1 walk right on top of him, it tends to be game over
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time 1 (you - 1 only have one life).
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extra energy. - This is not very well implemented and spoilsen
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otherwise 1 enjoyable game. The idea is that the energy packs
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must be dropped into gaps in a series of sliding blocks. If y ou
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succeed in getting the energy from top to bottom, it supplements
your total. If you mistime a drop, the energy pod is
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lost. There are six pods on each deck. The problem is some
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horrible flickering scrolling which I found most off-putting.
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These grumbles apart. Droids is a nice mixture of action
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and strategy. It would be ideal for someone who found Im-
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. computers on the prototype warship Arachnid are out of Druids. Supplier: Anglo soft. Machine: C64. Price:
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and the ship's defence mechanisms have automatic- f7.95/f9.95 cassldisk.
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ally been swtiched into red alert battle mode, programmed Originality: 7/10. Graphics: 6/10. Playability: 6/10. Value:
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