Reviews

I am so much in love with this game, that I find it very difficult to find the proper words to review it!

This game is just perfect! Even though I can only get to a certain point (usually day 5 or 6), I always enjoy every moment with this game. The colors are used to the best effect and in the most clever way (sprites are well spaced so no color clash is seen at any time). And the music...oh boy! The in game tune is just right, taking the player into the slowly-building frantic athmosphere...and keeping him/her there for hours!

The presentation and high-score screens are just ...PERFECT (I know I am repeating myself but what else can I say?)

Addictivity is (of course) top-level...and I am just so glad I never saw a game like this at the arcades, in my days!!

And to top it all, even my 11 years old son loves this game (his super-mario- galaxy-pokemon-rumble-jumble-whatever notwithstanding)!

I consider this to be the best zx arcade game ever and surely one of the best single-screen arcade games of all times!

Cute music ... but I don´t understand this game !! :-(

A puzzle/arcade hybrid, Factory Daze fits perfectly into the Spectrum scene and could so easily be of mid-eighties origin – bar the twangly modern - and excellent - in game tune.

Playing it calls to mind so many Spectrum classics from Klax and the Tetris style games at the puzzle end of the scale through to arcade games that demand busywork from cool heads like stage one of Tribble Trubble.

In this game you have to man the assembly line by colour and shape matching up to four toy making machines on a conveyor belt connected line. Like plate spinning you have to be relentlessly restless – in this case continually rotating the machines in time to make the right imprint on the right toy as it passes underneath it. Co-ordinating several machines at once is a dizzying task; fortunately the player is equipped with a kind of wizard wand with which to fix one machine onto autopilot. The wand can be used 5 times in the game so you need to reserve it for times of extreme conveyor crisis.

Get the wrong machine print on the wrong toy and it is sucked off the assembly line. Lose too many toys and you'll get a warning from the boss (lose a life)

Its a colourful game both for decoration and to help the player match machine to toy. My eyes struggle to quickly distinguish green/yellow or white/cyan on the Spectrum emulator, a major setback when playing this game but not one that ruins the fun as each toy is also different in shape.

Misc Negatives
The gameplay is a tad repetitive.

Misc Positives
The music is great. There is humour in the game that reminds me of the struggles of working class heroes on the Spectrum, like Wally Week and Trashman. It is all very slickly programmed. Passwords help you from having to start from level one.
Quick witted puzzle fans will love it.

Verdict
Factory Daze is the job poor Eric ended up after in after failing to retrieve his skool report from Mr Whacker's safe. 3.4/5