1983 Elfin Software (UK)
The game starts off with a nice introduction which left me intrigued.
But the displaying of our hero and the enemy robots in the maze every time you lose a life, takes so much time it makes me just wanna forget it and move on to another.
Still, I managed to gather a few bits of patient to get thru to level 2. And I'm afraid to say, it's more of the same, only this time the maze is displayed differently. You control a blue man with a gun which seems to fire up red missiles. Your job? To clear the maze of nasty robots. It reminds me a bit of Android, but a lot more primitive. Overall, for 1983, it's not all that bad, the graphics and sound are adequate and even interesting, but playability is too slow and with bad key response, and the time wasted organizing the maze every time you lose a life is just plain irritating. Maybe in later levels, more development as been made, but I doubt a lot of players ever had enough patience to get there.
Not an awful game, but a very basic one. You control your player in a small 'maze' and your goal is to take out all the 'robots'. The only problem is the controls. Firstly the left button is mapped to the 'shift' key, which is odd. And secondly, the play can only shoot whilst moving. It feels a little like the game programmer had a few glitches in the game, and left them in as part of the game. Therefore, making the game feel unfinished. But for what it is, an early basic game it is still playable.
