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and simple too. The only shadow over their lives is
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the foot of a volcano.
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Suddenly, from the sky appears a strange peril. An alien
race, ruthless and bloodthirsty, massacre hundreds of a
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simple people and put them to work in the mines. They make
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the ancient volcano their headquarters and the location of
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power source.
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But the young race does not give up hope. Secretely they
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young boys to reak revenge and save the race. One hero
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Ta I. He is sent into the heart of the volcano to find
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ancient sacred armour fin reality an anti-red combat suit)
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with it he must destroy the power source at the heart of
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Title: Antiriad. Company: Palace Software. 275 Pentonville
Road, London NI. Tel: 01 278 0751. Machine: C64. Price:
1'8.95. Originality: 8/10. Playability: 7/10. Graphics: 9/10,
Value: 8/10.
l The first thing to do is to get through the forest. avoiding
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armour. When you get to it you'll find that you need antigravity
boots and a blaster. So you have to get out of the
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armour and find the boots which are at the top of a tree, then
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back to the suit and float about to find the blaster.
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All of this involves an awful lot of death destruction,
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for you, because when you're not in the suit with your
blaster, a the only way you can kill anything is by chucking
r rocks at them. However you're aim's not bad so there's hope
for w you yet.
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of h Ariolasoft. You're a marble, and you have to negotiate
various i 3D mazes. The problem with being a marble is that
it's s very difficult to control our movements. A gentle shove
with o the joystick to the left and you find yourself careering
off the edge of the play area into an abyss.
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Level one (of six) breaks you in quite gently and it may be
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worth your while hanging around a bit on this one just to get
the i hang on the controls. Each level has its own music, level
two's s is very good, level four sounds like a chimp has been let
loose a on a synth!
s To be honest, I couldn't really get addicted, although I
know t people who are. One of the main reasons for this is that
each r level loads separately from disk and this seems to take
an a awfully long time. The apparent reason for this is the
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of the graphics and sound. The graphics are
truely g wonderful, with beautiful colours and very effective
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landscapes.
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Hazards to avoid include marble eating worms. steelies
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are black marbles which try and push you off the edge.
bonuses to be gained if you get them first. There are vacuum
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cleaners which suck you off course and plenty of slopes and
bumps n to send you spinning into oblivion.
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If you like a game which is totally frustrating and very
different f then this may keep you occupied for hours even if
On the whole it's quite a nice 1 game. graphics are it's r only to stare at the fascinating mazes. Definitely worth a
reminiscent of Cauldron II, and are 1 varied and interesting. try. o
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It's also very difficult so you'll need 1 quite a bit of practice m
especially to get the hang of that 1. floating feeling when Touchline: E
you've managed to get the suit on the 1‘ go. Make sure you pick Title: l Marble Madness. Company: Ariolasoft, 68 Long Acre,
up lots of powercells as you go about, 9 though, because if you Covent e Garden, London 13/C2E 9.1H. Tel: 01 836 3411.
run out the suit dies and you have to 2 get out. That's not nice
Machine: c C64. Price: 114.95 disk. Originality: 10/10.
if you're deep in the volcano! 4
Graphics: t 10/10. Playahility: 7/10 Value: 8/10.
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