Review by ABU on 19 Apr 2010 (Rating: 4)
Polished maze game where you play a bee that has to rescue his cousin from an underground ants nest. You need to collect pollen from flowers on the way to open secret entrances, but creepy crawlies will nick your pollen and drain your stamina. The graphics are colourful, very nicely animated and there’s a good continuous tune. Remember this was a big hit at the time but strangely this seems to have been the author’s last game.
Ok, another bug-ridden game, not in the informatic sense, but what would expect from a sotware house called Bug-Byte, anyway this is a sort of sequel of The Birds and the Bees, whose star has been kidnapped and locked away underground by some ant-thugs, you're Barnabee, his cousin, and must rescue him. So it's basically an exploring game, in flip screen, with you flying around, dodging disgusting ground insects, picking up flowers, which give you energy and opens passages on other locations, and searching for your silly relative. Also, some walls of the mazes are fragile, and they fall down after a push, opening new passages thorugh the maze. I particularly enjoy these crumbling walls, I like the small sound effect of the crumbling. And I like the game, not very fast, but not slow - it has just about the right pace - nice graphics, very good playability and Bach wheezing out one of his greatest hits through the beeper [you can turn it off pressing A]. Good, good, good.
4/5
1984 Bug Byte Software (UK)
by Adrian Sherwin, Andrew Peckham and Tim Lewis
Antics is the sequel to the Birds and the Bees. This time you play Barnabee who as to rescue his cousin from an ants nest. The game features a vast colorful maze where you can roam around even just for fun. The quest itself requires Barnabee to collect pollen from flowers scattered underground (?) this way opening secret entrances which allow new areas of the maze to be accessed and subsequently reach his cousin. The game got good reviews at the time, but it a bit forgotten, undeserving, because it's a colorful, fluid and very playable maze game.
