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Games Reviews
KETTLE
Weird, wondetful„ zany or just plain fun. There are hosts
of games just waiting for you out there, so we've brought
you some to ease the burden of your decision.
Kettle is Tony Crowther's second game since resuming
his partnership with Alligata. The First, Trap, was featured
as Game of the Month. Kettle is unfortunately somewhat
disappointing.
You play the part of a kettle (surprise, surprise) and are
trapped in an underground complex of 30 different levels.
Your objectives are survival and escape. The key to moving
from one level to the next is to find a tin opener. This is
hidden deep within one of the many bowls scattered round
the complex. At least I think that they are bowls. That is
what they look like although the blurb insists on calling
them bowels but 1 have a gut feeling that that is wrong
somehow. Shooting the bowls 10 times results in it changing
into a diamond and a further successful hit changes the
diamond into an alien, a bonus, an energy giving jug of water
or the much neded tin opener.
Shooting objects - bowls, bubbles and diamonds is done
by use of a crizza. This orbits around your kettle and behaves
something like a cross between a South American bolus and
a yo-yo. You can choose from the initial option screen how
you want the crizza to behave.
The most interesting part of the game is the fact that two
players can play simultaneously. The screen is split so that
you can watch exactly what your opponent is up to. Two
distinct strategies present themselves. You can work as a
partnership or you can play against eachother, waiting for
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the other player to do all the hard work before nipping in and
stealing whatever the diamond happens to reveal.
The split screen works nicely but the main problem is
that the game is just plain dull. Not one of -
1Ony's efforts. bG e t t. e r R . H .
Touchline:
Tide: Kettle. Company: Alligata, 1 Orange Si. Sheffield.
Machine: C64. Price: C9.95. Originality: 8/1a Graphics:
7/10. Playahility: 6/10. Value: 5/10.
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is Uchi Mata, a judo simulation. The name incidentally
refers to one of the moves - an inner thigh throw.
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Judo allows no kicks or punches, it involves gripping
r your opponent's judogi, catching him off balance and trying
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throw him onto his back. How well you do this results in
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being awarded to you. A perfect throw is called an
e ippon and immediately ends the bout. Lesser manoevres
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be awarded a waza-ari, yuko or koka.
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Your chances of completing a successful throw depend
largely on the quality of grip you have on your opponent.
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makes your man make a grab and a bar chart in the
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left hand corner displays the relative grips of the red and
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