Psycho Hopper
Release Date  1990
Original Publisher  Mastertronic Plus (UK)
Min. Hardware  ZX-Spectrum 48K
Language  English
Genre  Arcade Game: Shoot-em-up
Max. Players  1
Original Price  £2.99
Controls  Cursor, Interface 2 (right), Kempston Joystick, Redefineable keys
Other Platforms  Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64
Average mag. score  65.00% (4 reviews)
Martijn's WoS score  64.2% (12 votes)

Re-releases
     #1 - EDOS (UK)

Authors/Contributors
     Tiny Williams [Tony Williams] (UK)at MC Lothlorien Ltd - ?
     Paul Tonge (UK)at MC Lothlorien Ltd - ?
     Robert Lever (UK)at MC Lothlorien Ltd - ?
     Martin Holland (UK)at MC Lothlorien Ltd - ?

Known Errors
     Bugfix provided by BadBeard:
  • In level 2, one of the diamonds (the last one at the right side of the map) can't be grabbed since the highest jump of the player will never be high enough to do so.
    Fixed using POKE 39293,14: POKE 39541,14
  • Near the end of level 4, the game starts showing some graphic corruption if the game is played without sound: "In simplest terms, for some reason the game uses paging as if it were a 128k game?!? It then writes a couple of values into the area that it has just paged (which hasn't paged obviously) and this area is the screen update section. From this point the bug quickly manifests itself as this code is copied multiple times to various parts of memory.
    This bug only occurs with the sound OFF. If you turn the sound ON, it won't happen."
    Fixed using POKE 38882,24.

Main File Downloads
     FilenameReleaseMachineSchemeLanguageComments
PsychoHopper.tap.zipOriginalZX-Spectrum 48K(???)English
PsychoHopper.tzx.zipOriginalZX-Spectrum 48K(None)English

Additional File Downloads
     FilenameSizeReleaseTypeLanguageComments
     PsychoHopper.scr6,912OriginalLoading screen
     PsychoHopper.gif3,539OriginalRunning screen
     PsychoHopper.jpg420,591OriginalInlay - Front
     PsychoHopper_Back.jpg308,937OriginalInlay - Back
     PsychoHopper_Tape.jpg50,618OriginalMedia scan
     PsychoHopper(EN).txt3,177OriginalInstructionsEnglish
     PsychoHopper.png22,483OriginalGame map
     psychohopper.zip0OriginalRZX playback file - Recorded by Albert Valls (with rollback)
     Psycho Hopper (1990)(Mastertronic Plus).pok280OriginalPOK pokes file

Magazine Reviews
     C&VG (Computer & Video Games)issue #102-1990/Maypage 63- Review: 74%
     Crashissue v.1 #76-1990/Maypage 46- Review: 71%
     Sinclair Userissue #99-1990/Maypage 62- Review: 69%
     Your Sinclairissue #53-1990/Maypage 42- Review: 46%

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