Home Computing Weekly


Dancing Monster

Categories: Review: Software
Author: K.I.
Publisher: Commodore
Machine: Commodore 64

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #45

Commodore have got to be insulting our intelligence by printing such simplified instructions with this game.

They seem to be making a song and dance about setting up your computer system. This I would expect in the CBM-64 user manual but not on software.

The game consists of a monster (to me it looks like a cross between an elephant and a grandad), which dances around the screen to some music.

Dancing Monster

The tune appears to be a downgraded version of 'In The Hall Of The Mountain King'. You must blast off parts of the monster with a cross-sight, controlled by the joystick.

The graphics are good, the monster can turn round and dance in various ways. One criticism here would be that the graphics are not smooth but jump from one position to another. Full use of colour is made.

The sound is good on the very fast level, which doesn't seem very hard to me. On the slower levels, the sound slows down and is just a series of tones.

The game is not the kind of thing you'd want to play every day. I found that after 15 or so minutes of continuous play, I was fed up with it.

My first thought was that it looked like a great party game - a friend of mine said exactly the same.

K.I.

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