Home Computing Weekly


Ghost Rider
By Positive Image
Spectrum 48K

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #85

This game combines arcade action with strategy and adventure. You must collect golden cups from 12 screens, avoiding deadly ghosts. Your score is for objects collected and also for speed. The LOAD instructions are very detailed.

On screen, you find left/right is Z/X. The demo shows screens to come rather than actual play. End lifts connect six floors, each containing a crown, a sword, a key, a jewel or cup and usually a patrolling ghost.

Mounted on a motorbike, you travel via lift from floor to floor, collecting objects.

The cup is between impassable brick walls, and some objects refuse to be collected. Unless the lifts do reverse direction, some floors appear impossible to reach from the necessary end. The order in which you collect probably has some bearing.

Sound is good and graphics well done, particularly falling off, although the white background gives an unfinished look.

Five lives are easily lost and the collected objects disappear with the life. Frustration becomes boredom after three hours of starting again. Try before you buy.

D.C.

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