Reviews

Arcade coin op conversion, it's a horizontal shoot'em up in which you are a cop who must stop the greatest escape ever killing a multitude of convicts running with a ball still chained to their feet and shooting like traumatic shock disorder affected Vietnam veterans. The best part of the game is the sampled voice when the loading finishes, from there on it just gets worser and worser (although the pumping music is not bad). It jus takes a handful of seconds to die, and to understand that maybe this is not one of 1987's pinnacles.
1,5/5

I believe this was Konami's debut in the ZX Spectrum market as a publisher of their own games, and much noise was made when it was discovered that it sucked. The original arcade game isn't much to rave about but my God the Spectrum conversion was a complete bust. It's tough to stay alive as enemies and bullets come fast and you don't have enough time to react to them. Overall it was just a very dull game with little going for it. Konami weren't in the Spectrum publishing market for very long, I believe 1987 was their only year and there are only four games published by Konami. Whilst their games only just got slightly got better they were already off to a horrendous start with this car crash of a game and I guess from the beginning the writing was on the wall.

1987 Konami (UK)
by Andrew Glaister & Stuart Ruecroft

This is one of the worst conversions ever made to the Spectrum. And because the original arcade game itself was not good, I think even below average, I don't understand why do a conversion.

Maybe Konami were expecting something better. Well, it isn't. You die easily and in a nonsensical way. The collision detection is so awful that if you just touch a pixel of the head or feet of a villain, even if he is not in your way, you lose a life. Awful.