Home Computing Weekly


Gatecrasher

Author: M.B.
Publisher: Quicksilva
Machine: BBC Model B

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #72

No, it's not party time! You must drop barrels into a maze of tunnels, trying to get one barrel into each of the nine boxes at the base of the maze. However, the barrels look and sound like ball bearings!

If a barrel drops on to a gate it moves in the direction the gate is facing and flips it over.

A box will empty if a second barrel falls into it - and you're limited to only 20 barrels per level, so study the maze carefully! You are able to rotate the maze up or down and there's an earthquake feature which randomly alters some of the gates.

Gatecrasher

Levels five and six add a difficult twist. You must sort the barrels into numerical order. If a barrel drops into a box, it swaps places with its neighbour on the right.

The keys are user-definable making the barrel-dropping machine easy to control. It's interesting that the screen shot on the inlay is from a different version of the game.

Enjoyable, simple at first but becoming much more difficult.

M.B.

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