Reviews

A major disasters. A not superb, but overall pleasing coin-op, reminiscent of Robocop, is turned into a mess of squat and sketchy graphics, jerky movements and action which is as exciting as waiting for snails to come out of their shells. A real waste of a licence and a truly horrendous game in itself.

What is this crap?!

Words fail me. This is supposed to be a conversion of the Sega arcade game E-SWAT, but evidently it's nothing like it in any way shape or form. It's diabolically bad in every level. The graphics are among the worst on a machine code Spectrum game. The gameplay is equally as bad, the controls are not only unresponsive but uncooperative as well as he jumps when you don't want him to, then doesn't jump when you do want him too. Your gun doesn't fire on command as well and you can also get stuck on an enemy which uses up all your health until you die. What a load of tosh! People say Double Dragon is the worst arcade conversion on the Spectrum, that's a wonderful piece of programming compared to whatever this is.

1990 US Gold (UK)
by Richard Aplin

Yup, it's not a good game. It's suppose to be a conversion of an average arcade game with the same name. But the author, which did lots of work for others consoles, like the C64, wasn't kind to us Spectrum owners. This was is only game in ZX, no wonder why. I Remember enjoying it a little bit back in the days, but just because the ambiance of the game is so dark and the big characters look so shady, that I had much curiosity to see what was next.