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This actually looks like a game that could have been good fun, but the problem is it's terribly unplayable. Getting past the flames in the beginning is a matter of luck and then when you do you have to collect all the items while avoid more flames and then leave, then repeat, that's it. So we have seen all that the game offers in about a minute and you paid £7.95 for this. Wow.

1984 Cheetahsoft Ltd (UK)
by Jim Rothrock


This seems to be a tie-in licensed game which I had ignored so far.
It was originally released for the Atari 2600 then ported to several household computers including the Spectrum. In the meantime I played the original and I must say it's not by any means a memorable game. Both are well written, with fast action and with funny little stick man and a nicely detailed dragon and castle, but when you play the Spectrum version it seems incomplete. It isn't, it's just that the Atari version has between levels two castle towers giving the impression that the player moves from castle to castle. Nonetheless, both versions are very limited, because you perform only in two main screens, the drawbridge and the treasury room guarded by the dragon.
The game could be a lot more fun with the addition of a few more different levels, this way the appeal soon wears off.

Well, for today we'll have the best and the worst.

Let's start with the last:
I just saw what this "dragonfire" is about and what I can say is that it seems ideal to take as a model to start with any 'gamemaker' (of wich you have so many options to choose from), but as a game itself, it is a disaster.

But, yes, it has a cool name. Really.