1985 Bug-Byte (UK)
by R. Amy
Another Jet Set Willy inspired game. It's decent enough, only a bit too hard and, of course, outdated even for 1985. The graphics are fairly decent, as well as the animations, but a bit too small and weird to please everyone. I think the character movement and overall gameplay is quite good, smooth and collision detection accurate. There is a bit of humour here and there, which is always a nice touch in games like these. The author seems to have re-release the game with another name to a different publisher, and even altered is own name to Trik, but I'm just speculating. If he did it wasn't much of a Trick, because both games are not that different, but feels enhancedm which is always a nice thing.
2018 update: Trik (the author) wrote a review about his own game here in Spectrum20, not sure if it was a reply to my review, but its very welcome and quite informative. Unfortunately, Trik is another example on how authors those days were explored and ripped off without any sort of compensation, and having in mind a lot were teens, its quite upsetting.
