Games Tape One contains three programs: Trapt, Star-Storm and Astro-Run. As each is fairly short, all are loaded together then selected from a menu.
Trapt I found by far the best of the three. The object is to move a man round a courtyard while the computer attempts to block your path with his men. You score for each move until completely surrounded.
The computer may not be the most witty of opponents, yet is challenging enough to make this a simple but amusing game to play.
Star-Storm is somewhat slow-moving, and could be made more difficult than it is. You must avoid oncoming stars as they scroll up the screen towards your spaceship.
Although clusters of stars make a difficult path in the middle of the screen, by staying towards the edges they become so sparse as to hardly offer any challenge at all.
In Astro-Run, you manoeuvre from side to side avoiding asteroid showers which gradually fill the screen. Each complete traverse constitutes an astro-run. Should you attempt to move off the screen, the program crashes with a "Bad Value In 8440".
Overall, worth buying for Trapt alone but neither of the other two games has that same addictive flavour.
29th November 1983
