Reviews

Unheralded budget Firebird title, a helicopter bombing and rescue game.
This is a very busy single screen action game that takes its cue off Ultimate's early output without being as good or with the same balanced difficulty progression.
There are 23 levels, level one being hard, 2 easy, 3 hard...
Dropping off the rescued 'clones' is frustratingly fussy and the chopper is quite a large sprite to get about in amongst very many enemies.
I had some fun loading this up, but not enough to want to progress through many of those 23 levels.
Mind you, level one features killer homing ducks, which has to be a plus!

1985 Firebird Software (UK)
by Tony Beckwith

This game had so much potential, it looks like one of those games currently being written by Spectrum freaks (like me), all pretty looking and incredibly addictive. Unfortunately it's too hard to be enjoyable. Screen One starts with the premise "This will be easy!". Joke not Mr. Tony! It's one of the hardest first levels I've ever played!
There is too much happening, the Helicopter is too big and the clone landing (the white flashing areas) either moves too fast or the collision detection with the Heli is not sensitive enough. Either way, this makes for a frustrating play in what could have been such a good game.