Reviews

Genius! Possibly the best Spectrum game basic you've never played.

Its a collection of mini games where you have to get from one side of a bridge structure to another. Each node on the bridge gives a new challenge.

And theres the rub. Each game is cunningly created to be unfair. Sooo unfair. The game is fun in the same way that NetHack or Dwarf Fortress is fun. Its not the winning, or even the playing, but the inventive way you die.

You see, one challenge will give a set of instructions to guess a number. By the time you've read the instructions and think you've got it, the last line will read 'You have 5 seconds to guess'. You're already out of time. Gotcha.

Next, the challenge will be finding your way across a field of landmines. Although the bridge screen uses cursors, the controls here will be TFHB, just for the hell of it. Just as you get used to the new controls - Out of time. Gotcha.

Theres an add the number. 935 + 237 in five seconds (Including instructions) before an ogre kills you. Giving a panicked answer of 1072 will give a reply of 'The ogre turns and walks away.'

Phew. Pause.

Before continuing as 'Before running back and clubbing you for the wrong answer.'. Gotcha.

Utter genius in a so, so cruel way. And just to give one last leaving present, answering 'N' to the question 'Is there another adventurer' will reset the computer'.

Oddly, this seems the only game the author ever wrote.

Sorry for the lack of reviews lately but my mother passed away on the 20th of March so I took time away to mourn with my family. 81 was a cracking innings all the same but it was still sad to say goodbye to her in the end.

As she will say herself, the show must always go on, and so it shall. This is a pretty nice game and I quite enjoyed the mini game feature but some of them don't work work well and some of them are just crap which spoils the fun. But in all it's a nice little program that kept me interested. There was no way this was getting a 5 but I felt 3 was too harsh, so 4 will do for this one.