Reviews

One of the best things released by Tynesoft, would be about the kindest way to describe this 1990 game licensed from the 1984 film. Six years late, not a great start, though parts of the game do look a bit more 84 than 90.
Things start well, with a brave and fairly successful attempt at a colourful digitised loading screen. Then 128k users get a reasonable rendition of the expected Axel-F theme music, while you decide what level to play, or play the game in sequence, a nice touch. The levels are each a different sub-game:
1) The warehouse
Passable side-scrolling shooter, that isn't much fun.
2) Car chase
Somewhere between Roadblasters and ChaseHQ, but nowhere near as good as either. Far too easy.
3) Storm mansion
Amble about, and plug all the security guards in the grounds of the mansion. Some of the graphics are top-down, some side-on, and some oblique. Control and interaction is frustrating. Not great.
4) Inside the mansion
First person view, not badly done, but very repetitive and a bit tedious after 2 minutes.
There is some good, but much bad in this. Some of the graphics, for a 1990 game, don't cut it. It is worth persevering a bit to be rewarded with the comically bad 'level won' screen. I sincerely hope Eddie Murphy has never seen that screenshot. 3/5 is possibly a bit generous, maybe the title music swayed me a bit.

I've seen better movie tie-ins, BHC isn't one of the best but far from the worst. It's sticks shy in the middle without much notice.
It's hard to reproduce Eddie Murphy's humour on a computer game, I know, but the movie is filled with potential for at least a good action game. Specially in a era where levels were loaded separately, leaving room for great ideas and much improvement. Just look at the Untouchables.
Instead you get a rushed game, mildly fun with 4 uninspired levels already seen and played by everyone elsewhere. The good thing is that the main movie script can actually be played thru the levels presented, although almost random. Starts with the warehouse scene and ends up in Mr.Big's mansion.
Worth checking if you're fan of Eddie Murphy or his movies or simply if you're a Spectrumaniac like me.

A largely unplayable game even with four modes in it. It also has a very dated look for 1990, it looks like it would be barely passible in 1986. David Whittaker's rendition of Axel F is the only thing going for this game, other than that there's nothing much going for this one.