Warning - this game could damage your health! Positively addictive, my upper arms
literally ached after I had finished.
Atlantis is an underwater version of the arcade game Scramble, and seems to have
most of the features of that game, although I could not get far enough to be sure!
A game for the advanced player, it is extremely fast right from the start, and uses the
BBC's sound and graphics capability to the full.
You have to move past a right to left scrolling underwater landscape avoiding, shooting
or bombing mines, obstacles and missiles. I could not get past the first section, but
two of my arcade-mad friends, playing simultaneously, managed to reach the caes of the
second stage.
Cassette instructions are minimal - how to load (which it did, first time). Screen
instructions set the scene and give the kep operations, awkward arrangement: left and
right cursor keys for Left/Right, A and Z for up/down, space bar or tab for bombs
and shift for missiles.
A high score is not kept and more instructions would have been useful - plus some
hints for beginners like myself! But a superb game for expert videogamers.