Reviews

Reviews for 1999 (#20)

Review by ABU on 08 Apr 2010 (Rating: 2)

Grotty little horizontal shoot-em-up.. You fight your way through waves of baddies to an end of level boss and thats it, apart from an annoying diamond-shaped thingy that kills you from behind. Looks like they spent more time on the digitized speech and flashy title page than the actual game. If you like this sort of game then it was done far better on the Spectrum by others.

Review by Raphie on 08 Feb 2012 (Rating: 3)

Another Gradius-type shmup and honestly it's a bit better than Transmuter. It's fast, it's tough and it has great use of effects, especially the explosion at the end. Yeah fairly enjoyable, I think some would be put off by the difficulty in this game, at times it seems unfair.

Review by The Dean of Games on 26 Jul 2013 (Rating: 3)

1987 Summit Software (UK)
by Chris Pile, Balor Knight and Stephen Corry (the Ice Cool Coders)

Let me tell you, this is a piece of really really unnerving software. It's good but very, very hard. If the Ice Cool Coders are that cool why didn't they write a cooler game, I don't know, maybe inspired by Prince, the King of Cool, while singing is song "1999"?

I got inspired: "The game is good, smooth, and fast like it should. But hey, I felt astray with such hard gameplay, that dude, I lost my mood and started hitting what I shouldn't: The reset button. Sorry..."
Ain't I cool? :)

Review by dandyboy on 26 Jul 2013 (Rating: 3)

An average shooter with nothing especially wrong to critizise .

Review by YOR on 26 Jul 2013 (Rating: 4)

Quite a nice shooter this. Wasn't expecting much but was expecting much much worse. Didn't think I'd wind up liking this but I did.