2005 Beyker Soft (Spain)
by Sergio Vaquer Montes
Well, what do you know!
This game is inspired by arcade coin-op Beastie Feastie which I always knew as the Glob, and I always wondered why it never got more success or why it never got a clone on the Speccy. The idea is simple and similar to the classic Pac-Man, eating dots, but here you do a lot more. You move around inside what seems like a building, with elevators and doors. You avoid baddies and use special abilities unknown to Pac-Man, like hiding yourself by jumping to the ceiling of each level while enemies pass by.
This rendition is very accurate in depicting the original game with all the features, but it's a bit crude, the characters, specially the enemies move in blocks and sometimes flicker. Still it's very playable just like the arcade. It seems this game entered the RetroMadrid 2005 Arcade Contest, which may explain why it looks older or unpolished than an actual 2005 game.
Review by YOR on 21 Feb 2020 (Rating: 3)
I'm with The Dean here, I like Beastie Feastie/The Glob as an arcade game and I'm disappointed it never got an official conversion or a clone during the Spectrum's heyday. But it's Beyker Soft and Sergio Vaquer Montes to the rescue with a game based on this arcade game. It won the Arcade 2005 Contest, well okay it was the only entrant but still, it won, and it plays quite favourably to the arcade version which is important for a conversion. I was however quite disappointed with the game as it does lack the same kind of thrills from the original game. It's not a bad effort all the same, it's just not as good as I hoped it would be, especially in comparison to the author's Deep Scan game.
