Big K


Brainstorm

Publisher: Virgin Games
Machine: BBC Model B

 
Published in Big K #6

Brainstorm

This month, Virgin Games bring us a new concept.

Totally Misleading Instructions.

After a week or so, things improved. An envelope containing a letter from Virgin and a small diagram arrived. It seemed the game was virtually unplayable without the diagram. But the really good bit was the diagram make a total mockery of the instructions in the program itself!

Looking to the game, it's a board-type game of "skill, memory, logic and nerve for two players". The idea is for each player to defend his brain (the one on the screen) against the lasers of his opponent by the strategic placing of deflecting prisms. The game comes to an end when one or other of the player's brains is toasted. What more can you say?