A first look at some of the latest releases
Digger: (Visions)
Rid your garden of Footas and Pubars in this underground chase.
They cannot pass through earth as you tunnel, unless they change
into ghosts. Beware the fire-breathing Pubars. Pump them up until
they explode, or for more points, tunnel under rocks to crush
them.
Rocky: (Superior)
Drop rocks on the patrolling mutant robots. They emit a yellow
light from their single eye which will weaken you if it strikes.
If you are not carrying a rock when caught, the mutant changes
into either a spectre or a crusher to make life more difficult.
Overdrive: (Superior)
A multi-stage 3D road race through night, snow, desert, and riverside
scenes. To qualify for the next scene you must overtake enough
cars to finish in the top 12.
Battletank: (Superior)
In this 3D game you guide your tank between pyramids, sighting
the enemy tanks from your turret. Their relative position is displayed
on the long range scanner as you attempt to bring them within
range of your gun.
Boris In The Underworld: (Superior)
Guide Boris through the underworld caverns in search of his stolen
valuables. Fight off the underworld creatures as the walls close
in on you.
Cosmic Kidnap: (Superior)
Move and shoot your laser base in an attempt to prevent the alien
swarm from rescuing their colleagues. Shoot them as they attempt
to break into your solid jail brick by brick, but beware the evil
bug as you manoeuvre under a hail of bombs.
Pool: (Dynabyte)
A simulation using six balls plus a black and a cue ball. Control
the direction of the cue and the strength of the shot. The computer
does the rest.
Percy Penguin: (Superior)
Trapped in an ice maze, you must survive the deadly Snobees as
A first look at some of the latest releases they chase you relentlessly.
Crush them with cleverly kicked ice blocks. Get three diamond
blocks in line for a bonus.
Horse Race: (Dynabyte)
Spend a day at the races. Study form, place your bets and follow
your chosen horse in the hope that the jockey doesn't fall off.
A game for one to six players which includes graphic detail such
as mobile camera, waving spectators and tote and leader boards.
Brain Teasers: (Dynabyte)
Six thought-provoking games. Noughts and crosses, 3D noughts
and crosses, Reversi, Mastermind, Magic Squares, and Sim. All
games use Mode 7 text.
Multi-Aid: (Dynabyte)
Three utilities on one cassette. Character - define and edit
multicoloured characters, auto-matically generates VDU23 commands
for saving. Soundlab - parameters for seven envelopes and nine
sound statements are displayed in this sound editor. Graph? -
a Mode 7 teletext editor which supports all control codes, stores
up to 24 screens for later use.
3D Tank Zone: (Dynabyte)
Scan the terrain around your turret and position your cross sight
on the enemy planes and tanks. Wire graphics create the landscape
as you try to outwit and out-shoot the enemy.
Elementary Statistics: (Garland)
Three different programs introducing charts to display collective
information and data. Choose the most suitable method from barchart,
piechart, or scatter, according to your requirements.
Astro Maths: (Scisoft)
Educational software for the seven to 15 age group. In two parts,
the program tests the child's ability on 10 problems with selectable
degrees of difficulty. The program moves on to part two with seven
successful answers or more. This is a space shoot out game destroying
the aliens by accurate positioning of the cross sight and laser
fire.
Study Maths 1: (Scisoft)
Educational software for the nine to 13 age group which incorporates
five different mathematical programs. Symmetry - drawing shapes.
Fractions - which shape is the bigger? Shapes - name the shape.
Factors -select the factors of a number from 10 given numbers.
Battleships - a coordinate game.
Confrontation: (Lothlorien)
A strategy war game for two players. Using a pre-recorded scenario,
or creating your own, activate and position your air and land
forces in an effort to reach your own agreed preset victory conditions.
Jungle Jive: (Virgin)
Taking a walk through the jungle, you are under constant attack
on both sides from a variety of brightly coloured animals. Armed
with only a rifle you must shoot them to survive to the next screen
where you meet different animals as the game gets faster.
