Home Computing Weekly


Dragon Attack

Categories: Review: Software
Author: S.S.
Publisher: Computer Games
Machine: Sord M5

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #63

In this game you are a fighter robot and you must move right or left and fire missiles at dragons or UFOs. If you are hit by fire from the dragon, or if the dragon moves to the base of the screen, you are knocked out. You can hide below shelters which gradually crumble under the fire of the dragons.

All this may sound strangely familiar, and so it should. Dragon Attack is a souped-up version of the now out-dated game of Space Invaders. Dragons, not invaders, descend in centipede fashion. One modification is that if a dragon is hit in the head, it will be completely knocked out; however, if it is hit in the torso, the torso disappears and the dragon divides into two. Tactics are therefore necessary.

Graphics and animation are adequate and the sound is good. However, this type of game is now totally out of date, and I can't see people flocking to buy this.

S.S.

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