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Sultan's Maze
the patience to wait
for every turn for
the scene to be
drawn, I cannot be
chewed to have to
find a jewel, then
head back and
dump it at Hampton
Palace, rinse repeat
because you literally
could only carry one
jewel at a time, and
it just made it a
sheer boreslog!
This one holds a few conundrums for me. For one, the
cover art shows you being chased by a werewolf style
monster, in game, its a ghost, and two, I’m torn with it…
Without going deep into the plot, your in a maze, there’s
jewels you need to pick up, there's a ghost chasing you,
and as you can see, this is all in primitive 3D. Sounds
lovely, but, it really bores the shite out of me when I play
it. I really want to like it because this thing does 3D, and
makes a half decent job creating a 3D world, like, this was
1984, and written in BASIC, running on an interpreter… I
am amazed (No pun intended) on the technical level, its
great, I can really really appreciate what it is, yet, I haven't
I know people liked
this, I know people
played it a lot, I’m
defo not one of
them people mind,
not my type of
game, even though, I can
see the brilliance behind it!
Xanagrams
Another educational game,
about the best of the
educational bunch here. It’s
basically a cross between a
crossword, and, well, an
anagram word finder. You
basically are told the letters
of the words, and then you
have to place each letter in
the correct place for points,
get a guess wrong, and you
lose a few points. Complete
the Xanagram and you get
a nice little jingle for your
efforts. Not much to go on
otherwise, theres no clues
at the start so the first few
tries are sheer luck really
until you hit a few letters.
Cute little spelling game
with settings for young and
old. Nothing really to add
to it really, for a basic
puzzle game, you could
waste 15 minutes in it
easily enough I suppose.
Do I still play it?
Nahhhhhhh
The Galactic Plague
We all love Space Invaders, it defined so much
all them years ago, and as soon as I saw the
tape cover of this, I was like “Ohhhh, its a
Space Invaders game!”. In it went into the tape
deck, loaded up, and I set myself away… Sadly,
its not a Space Invaders clone, but in some
ways, its a little better, for one, the bugger is
hard, you really need to remember the
patterns of the enemies hurtling towards you,
because they come from all angles, honestly, if
you can picture the scene where a pack of
dogs go completely crackers running about the
house, while shooting doggy chocolate drops
at you, and all the while you’ve got to dodge
them, and the chocco drops, and as you
manage to get the numbers down, the remainder ones go
faster and faster… You’ve got level 1 of The Galactic
Plague, lol!
Seriously, your
lives are gone in
a crack, and
your sitting
there like “Bloody hell, what happened there?”, the game
area itself isn't very big, there's no bases to hide behind,
once your playing, your in… And I like that in a game,
some may think its an inferior clone of Space Invaders,
but, it doesn't pretend to be, it is different, and in the
most part, its just a straight up shooter that I like!
The graphics again, are okay, not breathtaking, but, they
do, and the sound is minimal, basic shooty shooty
sounds, explosions and what not… Bit of a shame, but, it
is what it is!
For a freebie, you cannot
complain, I play this still, cannot
remember what my highest level
is… But it’s always a battle…
And for me, that's the point,
and why I loved old games back
in the day, no cotton wool to
be wrapped up in… A game
would really try to beat you!