1984 - The Edge (UK)
by Paul Curtis and Jack Wilkes
One of my most hated games in 1984.
If was too difficult for this impatient kid to get into.
Nowadays I still find it hard (it is!) but I finally can see its charm. Nice graphics, excellent movement of characters and an overall nice shoot-em-up.
The problem is it moves to fast, making it quite frustrating. Also the object of the game becomes boring after a while.
Riding your Starbike, automatically firing all the time from the moment you start to fly, you must rescue some lost yellow jumping aliens, moving through about five enviroments scrolling in loop, e among which you can move entering something similar to a big screen. Of course you have your usual amount of spinning, bubbling, hovering, flickering objects all over the playing area - who are able to kill you very fastly. And ultrafast is your Starbike too and the game itself, with colorful and well drawn Ultimatesque graphics, high manoeuvrability and and a certain dose of difficulty. It supports the Currah Microspeech. It's surely well done. P.s. very good loading screen, again.
