Reviews

Above average platform game for the not easily discouraged. Avoiding jelly monsters and tumbling rocks(?) that drain your energy, you must negotiate platforms and lifts collecting items for points and most importantly the key to exit the level. The fly in the ointment is the eagle that wonders round the levels and will carry you back to the start if it catches you. This is immensely annoying and often results in an ill-judged jump to avoid getting caught, In other words it's hard. I got to level 2 but there is a practice mode that lets you try out all levels which is cheating in my book! Controls are responsive and the graphics and sound are adequate. Worth a look if you think Manic Miner is too damm easy.

For the third time I have gone from A-Z and hand-picked one game from each to review and this may be the last time I do this as picking a game from Q, X, Y and Z just gets harder and harder every time. And as usual I start off with a game that begins with a number lol. The main character looks similar to the one on Nifty Lifty but I've gotta say that's a far better game. Here the action is slow and pretty clumsy. I always seem to run into the bird that sends you back to the start and also found my man to jump automatically and continuously at one point, making me think it was a stuck key on my keyboard, but it wasn't, it was actually the game. I was not impressed with 1994 at all.