Reviews

A lot of cricket games just relied on text during matches, and it's just as well because when there were action in it it was usually rubbish and this game is a good example. The gameplay is just very poorly implemented and hardly resembles cricket at all. You can hit the wicket but still not be given out and the ball only rolls on the ground yet you can be caught out. As bad as the England team. Rubbish.

The teams took the field in the shape of theses cute little chaps and we were ready to bowl and field. I choose the medium pacer and was allowed to control him by starting his run up (but that was all). A white dot duly spewed randomly forth and missed the wicket by a big wafting stick of celery on the offside. The crowd liked that. Appeal for LBW! OUT!, our first wicket taken. Textbook Shakoor Rana decision!

The graphics here are deceptive chums, look ready and set for a long British Summer of leather on willow but are only a vague representation of what the jolly old Spectrum CPU thinks is going on. Spin balls, bouncers, caught or dropped, its all game of guess what happened. The saving grace is the CPU's batsman were as flummoxed as mine, their all out score of 73 in the Test edging my button mashing 63 all out.

Fortunately tea (and whisky) was served at the end of the Test and this travesty of a tie in (which seems to trademark Ocean not Tynesoft in the instructions?), a complete let down to the genius mullet haired Shredded Wheat monster who endorsed it, could be put back in Beefy's Box forever.

Verdict: One flipping short googly in a maiden over* (1/5).

*Nevertheless a contender for Tynesoft's finest hour on the ZX!