Reviews

After releasing two of the least impressive games compilations, ICL came back for more with this third tape. Yet again, there are four games:

Mind The Meteors is that old chestnut where you fly through an asteroid field trying to avoid collisions with them. In a slight twist from the usual format, you travel left to right and there's no scrolling. However, other than that, it's pretty pointless.

Daylight Robbery is, perhaps, a phrase that comes to mind when you consider the price of this tape. However, it's a surprisingly decent game being a twist on the Pac Man format where you have to make off with some bags of cash from a maze under a time limit whilst the guards hunt you down. Sure, it's in BASIC and slow as heck, but there's actually some fun to be had as you work out the best routes and how much cash can be made off with.

Battleships is, again, surprisingly good; a faithful adaptation of the board/paper game. Not quite a substitute for the real thing, but being a single-player game it doesn't have to be.

The Invisible Invader, sadly, slips back to ICL's usual standard. You just have to follow the directions given on the screen to find the aforementioned invader, and the graphics are particularly risible.

So, two half-way playable games and a couple of wastes of time makes this a big improvement on the previous ICL compilations. It's still not great, but you could have done worse by 1982 standards.