Your Sinclair


Advanced Pinball Simulator

Author: Marcus Berkmann
Publisher: Codemasters
Machine: Spectrum 48K/128K

 
Published in Your Sinclair #37

Advanced Pinball Simulator

This latest Code Masters title (accompanied as ever by pix of those ghastly Darling laddies) is an assault on the ever popular pinball market (Nah? Really? Ed), and it's not at all bad.

The main problem on the Speccy - well, on my cranky old 48K-er at least - is the hopeless sound, and pinball does need its sound effects to work properly. But despite this, APS is not as awful as most Code Masters games, perhaps 'cos it's written by the Oliver Twins, who also gave us the ill-fated Sport Aid project, The Race Against Time. If they have not captured the feel of a pinball table particularly accurately, that's partly because they haven't tried to. Instead this is a computer game based, to a greater or lesser extent, on pinball, and as that it works well. Just be careful not to tilt the computer (Eh? Ed).

Marcus Berkmann

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