Reviews

1988 Topo Soft (Spain)
by Jose Munoz Perez, Roberto Acebes (graphics) and Gominolas (music)

Never really liked this game.
At the time it was becoming a bit disappointed with the games I purchased, and this was one of them.
The game is not bad nor good, too average for my now 7 years of acquired tastes.
Nothing really stands out unless you are a newcomer to the gaming scene.
The cinema screen and the audience representing your lifes are a nice touch.

Chicago 30's is a platform-shooter set in the 30s where you must, as a cop, defeat a Mafia ring by simply shooting everyone you meet.

The game is nicely presented, with good graphics, smooth scrolling and an unusual setting - your lives are the audience of a cinema which shows your game as a movie. Every time you lose a life a person leaves the place, until it's Game Over.

However, the gameplay is too much simple and repetitive, relying its difficulty just on the sheer numer of cookie-cutter enemies, to hold your interest for anything more than a relatively short time. More variety would surely have been welcome.

Spanish jump'n'shoot of the hardest kind.

3/5

I'm just going to say this is not one of Topo Soft's best games. It doesn't play well at all. I agree the audience representing as lives is nice and unique but it's too bad nothing else within the game stands out.