Reviews

I first played this a year or two ago after it was mentioned in a top 5 game lists on the WoS forum and I found it really enjoyable. It's a fun game to spend a quiet afternoon on and it's not too difficult once you get past the first challenge. One of my favourite features is the telephone system, which you can use to teleport to different areas once you've obtained the code.

The only other difficult aspect is the energy meter, which can drop to zero very quickly, especially if you use the levitation crystal a lot.

I give this 4/5

A budget priced arcade adventure. There's some strange ideas like being able to levitate and having your energy level hidden. Overall it's quite enjoyable and it didn't cost mega bucks when it was released.

Mega Bluff ... !!

1986 Firebird Software (UK)
by Ivan Horn, Andrew Deakin and M.B.D.

It's pretty obvious were the Mega Bucks author got his inspirations from. I really think the merging of the Wally Week series with the Magic Knight games really paid off. But at a budget price it wasn't mega bucks for sure. Instead, for any lucky player who got a copy and is a fan of the genre, the game really pays off.

Colour is all around, which is a good thing, but there is also much color clashing present. The graphics are only average, a little below the Magic Knight's games, which I never fancied much, but not as good as the brilliant funny characters in Everyone' a Wally, for instance.

Now, about the game itself, if you played any of the above mentioned games, you know what you are getting into. Probably not so evident for the Wally Week gamers, which is much more of an action game. There is no jumping option, for instance. Instead you pretty much collect/swap/negotiate objects like in Spellbound or Knight Tyme. The puzzles are all well thought out and are very entertaining to mess with, with a few surprises here and there. For a budget price title under 2 Bucks this is a Mega game.

by Ivan Horn, Andrew P. Deakin, M.B.D.

Hey, that's a fine arcade/adventure, very playable and entertaining.
The best and more creative work by the Horn-Deakin team was done before their joining Ocean, it seems, and it was a budget game.
4/5