Reviews

1985 Triple Six (UK)
by John George Jones

This game was always mysterious to me.
First of all because of it's sinister name and secondly because it always crashed right at the end, so I never got the chance of playing it. Now thanks to emulators I finally was able to see why this is one of the most infamous games ever released. Even the label name is of terrible bad taste.
The name and the green fellow at the beginning (supposedly Beelzebub, with whom you chat at the end) is inspired by Alice Cooper Goes To Hell album.

The game is filled with horror scenes, torture chambers and visions from hell.
Not the most recommended game for a young kid in 1985. Nowadays it doesn't look that sick to me, some sprites are even funny and not that horrific. That's probably because of the authors lack of artistic talent. However, for 1985, this was of very bad taste. Specially without any age restrictions printed anywhere, besides the white, clean cover. I wonder how I would feel if I had played it in the 80's. ..

As a game it's not more than average. And besides the sick humour there isn't more to it. It's not the easiest game either, in fact every time you die you go back to the start, which is really annoying. And with such a big map I don't think you ever gonna finish it. But taking into account your meeting with Beelzebub at the end, I suppose it's better that way. Vade Retro!

A bizarre maze game where you play as a poor fellow who's been sent to Hell and must find three crosses before confronting Beelzebub himself (who looks a lot like Alice Cooper, no less) and make your escape.

The "gory" graphics come from the warped mind of John Jones, who will create the even weirder Soft And Cuddly in 1987. Apart from the novelty value, this is a pretty average maze game, decent but not exceptional.

This is a weird little game and one that I feel was designed for shock value and to piss off religious people more than anything. Graphically and technically it is impressive but it seems the designer did so much work into producing the graphics and technical qualities and forgot about the gameplay because there isn't much to shout about here. If this were a budget game, I'd cut it some slack, but this was 7 quid, well maybe the graphics alone are worth that price but the gameplay sure as heck isn't.