Home Computing Weekly


A.B.M. Control/Cavern Hunt

Categories: Review: Software
Author: J.W.
Publisher: Fantasia 99
Machine: TI99/4A

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #43

A.B.M. Control is a one or two player game in which you must survive through as many screens as possible by defending your cities against the computer's attack.

This becomes more difficult to assuage as bombers and cruise missiles join the barrage of bombs.

A score is given after each successful defence, determined by the number of cities intact and various classes of missile destroyed, both as multiples of screens completed. The game ends when no more cities remain.

Cavern Hunt is a version of Hunt The Wumpus, or in this case the Wumpit!

You are randomly located in a one-dimensional maze.

The maze contains bats and slime pits. The number of these, as do Wumpits to be found, depend on which of three levels of difficulty is chosen.

The number of bloodspots left as clues to the Wumpits' whereabouts are also determined by difficulty level.

Actually travelling through the maze is quite slow.

J.W.