C&VG


Joey
By Blue Ribbon
BBC/Electron

 
Published in Computer & Video Games #56

Joey

Joey is a kangaroo at considerable risk from aggressive Aborigines throwing boomerangs at him and nasty things (which look like more of Blue Ribbon's favourite moving eyes) roaming at large.

Joey can fight back by hopping about the screen destroying boomerangs. The game can be played at slow, medium or fast speed, and you can choose to start at any of the nine screens.

According to Blue Ribbon, once you've completed all the screens, boulders start to fall, but I used up my five lives before I could find out exactly what this meant.

The graphics are only average, except for Joey, an endearing little chap who hops and scurries about the screen in a very kangaroo-like way and looks at you with reproachful eyes and despondent flattened ears when he loses a life.