by Tom Prosser
Bubble Bus Software released three titles in 1985. All three were Ultimate inspired games. Two by Stephen J. Crow, Wizard's Lair and the celebrated Starquake, and the other one was Brainstorm by Tom Prosser.
Brainstorm is a mix between Jet Pac, Atic Atac and Underwurlde. It uses the flying jetpacked man from the first, the use of keys from the second, and the huge 2D maze with lateral view from the third, plus the need to find the right weapon to defeat each specific Guardian - Guardians which are preventing us from escaping. Graphics are neat, and playability is ok. It's not as smooth, responsive and well drawn as the Ultimate games, and multitudes of unpredictable weird creatures drain your energy very fast, still is not bad.
3,5/5
Review by YOR on 18 Nov 2017 (Rating: 2)
I was so disappointed with this. It looks wonderful and it looked like something I could enjoy, sadly not the case. It's hard to shoot at the enemies and even harder to avoid them. Plus I encountered a bug where I dropped the blue key in mid-air and could not retrieve it again, making progression impossible. Argh what an absolute pity, I was really looking forward to playing this but as it turned out I may never play it again. Those gorgeous graphics deserve much better.
