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This game is memorable to me for being a bit crap, to be honest, but very colourful and I still play it occasionally for some mindless brief entertainment.

The premise of the game follows the comic books by Hergé - "Destination Moon" and "Explorers on the Moon". You play idiotically bequiffed boy reporter Tintin who for mysterious reasons is asked to accompany a party to land on the moon, with scientist egghead chum Calculus and alcoholic shipping menace Captain Haddock. Erudite canine Snowy appears also in the game but only to bark, appalled, at the start of each stage.

The game is seperated into two stages, one which is a bit of a crap platformer where you must free your friends from the clutches of evil presumed-Communist Colonel Jorgen. This is achieved by blasting Jorgen repeatedly in the face with a fire extinguisher and er, touching your allies (ooer). For some reason fires break out all over the rocket as you do this. You must then put out the fires. Just for variety every so often you must find and defuse bombs that the suicidal Jorgen has secreted over the rocket. Hum. If you've ever played the spectrum game of TMNT the platforming is almost identical in feel. Big, bold, chaotic, but completely insubstantial and not very satisfying to play. The fact that your compatriots seem entirely happy to blunder into Jorgen all day and that the level isn't considered completed unless they are free is an annoyance. As are the seemingly randomly spawned fires. And everything. In fact, everything in this stage is an annoyance.

And then, oh boy! The meat of the game! The second stage is an "into-the-screen" asteroid dodge-em-up. You pilot the rocket into yellow fuel tokens and red point tokens. Aaaand, that's it. No really. No opposition except several hundred tons of rock and an ever-ticking fuel timer. Surely the programmers are just leading up to a moon-based climactic action sequence? Well... no. That's it. That's the game. A relatively irritating platform sequence, followed by one of the most simplistic and mindnumbingly irrelevant subgame. Repeat the levels a few times. Add a screen saying "You on the mooN". Job's a good 'un.

pleasantly colourful, although the gameplay is rather delirious.

I don't like this game - and that's beyond the scarce sympathy I have for the reactionary, goody-two-shoes character of Tintin himself.

I find it too much repetitive and shallow despite being nice to look at, games from the Perry/Bruty couple never looked lousy. I was so bored with it that I didn't even know there was a final stage set on the Moon! For Tintin fans only.

1989 Infogrames (UK)
by David Perry and Nick Brut

There is nothing to get over excited here. If you are fan of Tintin you might enjoy it more than anyone else, and even so, I doubt for much long. The game is pretty to look at, with nice graphics and colors, the platform level even resembles 'Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future' in my eyes, but that isn't enough to get me hooked for long. So, sorry fans, Tintin crashed on the moon this time.

2,5 points

This isn´t a horrible game but , somehow , I expected much more !!

Gameplay is clumsy ... graphics are plain .

I love Tintin but I cannot love this game ...

2,5 out of 5 .