As a kid I used to spend hours playing beautiful coin-op machine called Amidar. This Spectrum game apparently tries to pretend it is Amidar on ZX Spectrum. Unfortunately it fails! First, it is completely unfinished since there are many nonsences that ruin it as a final product. First of all, in the bonus stage you often cannot land on the banana because your hero always miss it. Its movements are completely random unlike the coin-op game where you could predict how it will move downwards. I even tried all possible positions using "rollback" in emulator and the hero missed the banana in all combinations! Another fail is the 1st stage - the main enemy chases you directly so often that it ends up a nightmare just finishing that level without any harms. You certainly will run out of your "freeze them" rescue points that for some reason replaced the "jumps" found in Amidar (probably the poor coding abilities of the individual that brought out this game). The 2nd painting level is also not cleverly made. Instead of having to paint the squares continuously you can just go across the whole grid not having to worry about anyhing. The computer beeps when your "color meter" runs out but actually nothing bad happens. It starts over again and there is simply no reason to worry. So in the end you realize this game is completely unfinished with lots of serious bugs like non-functional bonus stage and idiotic game mechanism here and there. Controls are quite good but the problem is, this is not a finished game and definitely not something one should spend a single penny on. The author did a very poor job and deserves nothing but a big BOOOO!
