Home Computing Weekly


Catcha Snatcha

Author: M.B.
Publisher: Imagine
Machine: Commodore Vic 20

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #19

A disappointing game which could have been interesting, if a bit more time had been spent ironing out the bugs.

As a store detective, you must patrol the corridors of your store preventing shoplifters from perpetrating their wicked deeds. Your duties also include returning lost property to the lost property office and disposing of the occasional parcel bomb.

Graphics and animation are good, but a bug causes the player to occasionally leave a trail of debris behind him. This stops the game and requires reloading to continue (if you're minded to).

Another fault is that at six o'clock on the store clock, the rush hour starts. Then the shoplifters speed up so much that you can only stand and watch as you score falls until the game is over. When a new game begins you are put back in the middle of the rush hour again.

M.B.

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