Big K


Beach-Head
By U. S. Gold
Spectrum 48K

 
Published in Big K #9

Beach-Head

It's nice to know that the dam' Yankees can produce turkeys as easily as any Brit software house. Beach-Head is as well thought-out as the average White House press release.

The sleeve notes are promising. There are seven stages in play, each of which is a little game in itself. The trouble is that they're all totally boring. To take one example, the first, all you have to do to complete it is move a cursor across a map from point A to point B. This involves the superhuman ability to distinguish between the up, down, left and right keys. A half-trained rhesus monkey could do it.

US Gold's Commodore products impress me. When it comes to the Spectrum, I think they'd better sharpen up their act.