Reviews

Undoutably one of the absolute worst games to ever exist let alone feature on a magazine covertape...like why Your Sinclair actually allowed this to feature on a covertape in the first place?

This game is Cassette 50 material. You control Pablo whose looking for his lost brother Sergio and you move him painfully slow around the level to collect coins and reach the exit...and because he is so slow finishing the levels take forever...leaving you bored within an instance of playing this game...and because he is so slow timing your jumps is a complete nightmare, either he'll land too short and land on the spikes or for a truly frustrating experience your character will simply not jump at all, leaving you to think why you even bothered with this game. Not even playing at double the speed does this any justice!

This game (at the time of this "review") currently sits in the top 5 of the worst Spectrum games on WoS, and with good reason too. It's a darn good thing this was free as it is simply not worth any price whatsoever. If any game inspired the Crap Games Compilation this must certainly have been the one.

No excuse for this mess ...

This game is beyond a joke! Clearly this was made to mock the Super Mario Bros as the main protagonist (going by Raphie's review) is Pablo Pablo much like Mario Mario and he collects coins like Mario does, but rather than enjoyble it's made to be as intentionally bland, boring and monotonous as possible. This should never have made a YS tape.

No, this isn't a great game. It isn't even a good game. It's a platform game written in BASIC and is predictively rather slow and not actually very good. But to slate the game for that is to miss the point completely. The creation of this game was chronicled over several months in Your Sinclair as part of a guide to programming. The finished game was put on the covertape for those who couldn't be bothered to type in the program themselves.
So to summarise, a crap platform game that was part of a fun programming guide. And an infinitely more fun game than Super Mario Bros.

4/5 for the fun I had typing it in.

Thanks 'Rebelstar Without a Cause' for written on your review my exact thoughts! ;)