by Creative Reality (Jason Austin, Dave Dew, Rob Hubbard)
In this arcade/adventure/maze game you control a slightly leaning Tarzan, through an all yellow labyrinthine jungle - where you never seem to change location, which is not very good for orientation. Moreover, the monochromatic persistency of the same colour doesn't help to improve the tendential dullness of the game, although the view of the scene is quite original and cinematographic, from behind some vegetation framing the playing area. Your character is agile and fast, but finds a disagreeable hitch in the relatively black interlude featured between a location and another. In the confusing maze of the jungle you're going to meet some not so friendly guests, like wild felines jumping on you, and, even worse, some natives, able to drain your energy like thirsty vampires - a well delivered punch [more than one, to tell the truth] might come in handy in this case, or maybe it would smarter to jump over them [almost over]. Various items can help your quest, personally I only found a torch and a rope [to swing over long pits], but what's your quest? I forgot: you must find seven gemstones which will enable you to save Jane. I only found one, and I must say that, although overall the game is not bad, I didn't feel very compelled to find the other six. Sorry Jane.
2,75/5
1986 Martech Games (UK)
by Jason Austin, Dave Dew and Rob Hubbard
A nicely made game featuring Tarzan, a character not many times used before.
The first time I saw this game on the shelfs I thought it was the Spectrum version of the 1982 arcade game Jungle King, which is one of my all time favorites.
Unfortunetely it has nothing to do with the Taito classic, instead you get a combat adventure game, as instructions call it, where Tarzan has to overcome many hazards in order to survive. The game is comprised by stages, all with different names. For example, the first one is called "Three Days", and is all about Tarzan surviving his enemies for 3 days.
Although the game is nicely made, with some interesting features, like the shading trees, the atmosphere, etc, I really can't get much into it, it's not a straight in your face action game, we know that, but could be a bit less boring.
