Home Computing Weekly


Gem Grabber

Categories: Review: Software
Author: J.W.
Publisher: Stainless
Machine: TI99/4A

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #80

As the title suggests, you take the jewels and run, but running is not too easy when you happen to be deep under the ground.

The screen shows a series of subterranean passageways surrounded by solid ground and crossed, in places, by walls of impenetrable rock. Randomly located in the ground are other rocks and explosives.

Using a limited supply of TNT you must bore a route through the ground into the passageways where five jewels have been placed.

Obviously you must avoid moving into the explosives, but passing directly beneath an object proves equally hazardous, as it will fall and crush you.

Since your man has only one life, after a brief rendering of "The Death March': the score is displayed and you are left to start again. Control of movement is from the keyboard.

When all the gems have been collected, a bonus jewel appears. If you can take this and make your way to the exit successfully, a bonus screen is awarded.

Here you gather gems once more whilst avoiding laser shots. The jewels have been made even less accessible.

J.W.

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