Big K


Grab It
By Voyager
Commodore 64

 
Published in Big K #8

Grab It

Grab-It... Ouch! Someone around here took that literally. Someone around here is going to have their teeth extracted with a pickaxe.

What we have is a nice little game based around a nice simple idea. At the top of the screen is a small spaceship from which comes a grabber - geddit - controlled by a sharp-witted and highly skilled person who places himself at the keyboard.

At the bottom are a selection of objects that have to be transferred to the spaceship by means of the grabber. In the meantime various flying objects bounce around the screen which cause the grabber to disappear in a puff of smoke should the sharp-witted and highly alert person at the keyboard fail to avoid them.

On the first screen you only have to avoid a solitary balloon but, as you move up through the screen, this is joined by kites and seagulls until no less than siz of the beasts are bouncing around the screen like hyperactive tennis balls.

It's like a sort of reverse tennis where you have to avoid the bouncing bits instead of hitting them. Quite simple but fun nonetheless.