Oloturia wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 10:56 am
And you are right!
Oh yeah!
Next one:
`Another thing to note is that each of the screens is suppose to be a different city or town in Great Britain, so presumably the one with the green sea monster is Loch Ness, the pool table screen is Poole, etc.´
Kind of beside the point, but I have to call this out:
Oloturia wrote: ↑Sun Aug 06, 2023 4:22 am"...However this is ultimately only 7 frame animation, and Manic Miner had that."
Who on earth wrote that review? Manic Miner has only four frames of animation for everything (some technically only three, with one frame used twice). I know this because of the headache I cause the programmer when I asked to upgrade the SAM Coupé version to 8 frames for The Lower Caverns.
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`Another thing to note is that each of the screens is suppose to be a different city or town in Great Britain, so presumably the one with the green sea monster is Loch Ness, the pool table screen is Poole, etc.´
Wow I never knew that! Amazing how Im still learning about 40 year old games!
The bit about the ropes was the giveaway. JSW's rope animation was pretty amazing for the time, and I still don't understand how it works despite staring at the code...
Anyway, onwards!
A slick complex and damnably difficult turnaround in which you, dear hacker, become the computer.
You remain ever vigilant for intruders, of which, needless to say, there are many. You pursue flying saucers across a panorama of ten screens, chase insect-like saboteurs along narrow tunnels
Another non conventional videogame that appeared on the 8-bits computers.
As you can see, I tend to assess non conventional games, like puzzle ones; and we all can agree, this is one of the most inspiring action games in the Spectrum.
In fact, its true genre is Real time strategy. Maybe the first of its class.
That alone is enough to hold this software in the highest regard, and so, it should be evaluated in the most generous way. But it also has a very original pseudo 3D view, the sound effects are more than acceptable and its playability shines.
All in all, a true forgotten gem.
Stick that in your Kempston joystick port and see what IN 31 says.
It was indeed Nether Earth (was it the "real-time strategy" that gave it away?) and...
Evil Genius wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 11:45 pm
Edit: gosh, it's really difficult to find a review that doesn't mention the title, author or other explicit detail. (Are partial reviews allowed?)
...if I'd had to add one of the other reviews, I'd ****** out the name of the game if necessary.