Home Computing Weekly


Bug Bomb

Author: R.E.
Publisher: Virgin Games
Machine: BBC Model B

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #18

Fancy deliberately putting bugs in a program! This is an entomologist's nightmare (or dream, depending on his suicidal tendencies).

You move around a grid trying to destroy the power sapping bugs. Touching a bug loses one of your three lives - they also fire back at you. You have up to three mines which are launched behind you and continue to move in that lane until hitting a bug or yourself.

The screen layout was simple, with good use of colour and sound, and the keys were very responsive. A bit *too* responsive, perhaps - I found it hard to launch one mine at a time and often had two or three travelling in line.

R.E.

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