Reviews

This was an original game for its time and the idea still seems a unique one; you control a Chinese man who is balancing spinning plates on top of poles.

There's a steady supply of plates and you've got to match up colours whilst occasionally rebalancing ones that are about to fall. Once you've got the hang of the rather awkward controls it's not too hard and soon becomes repetitive.

Originally a C64 game, the Spectrum conversion suffers from inferior graphics and sound which, let's face it, were about the only things that it really had going for it in the first place. Overall, it's one of the more forgettable games in Ocean's back catalogue.

Irritating music, primitive and eye-soring visuals (which aren't any better than the C64 version, despite what Matt B wrote) and dumb, repetitive gameplay make Chinese Juggler one of the worst titles in the whole Ocean catalogue. Avoid like plague.

Cute presentation but nule game-play !!!

1,5 / 5 .

Has an event in some weird sports competition, this would have been quite good. But as a whole single game it's obviously weak and lacks longevity, unless, of course, you like to repeat the same task over and over again, if so, maybe a job in some assembly line is something to consider.

What the heck is this all about? It's a complete mess in every department. The graphics are bad, the music is absolutely dreadful and the gameplay is a pain. Probably Ocean's worse game in my book along with Highlander.

I never bought this game thankfully.

Utter dross, terrible game, and even by 1984's standards the graphics, and inlay art are bordering on racism.
If this game had've been part of a larger program it may have been OK, as a standalone game it falls way short of anything worth playing.

If this had maybe been shoved out by Mastertronic for £1.99 it may have been slightly more palatable, or at least less of a blow when you loaded it up and realised it was shite. But over a fiver for this was an utter rip.
I understand it was 1984, but that's not really an excuse this was Ocean, and by this time bedroom coders had put out better games as a solo author, not as a collective of "professionals".
5 programmers worked on this game, count 'em 5, and this is all they could come up with?

It's works like this that makes me doubt Ocean were ever the so called powerhouse people seem to think they were.

As good a company as Ocean were they had their low points like everyone else, this game being a prime example.