Home Computing Weekly


Lander/Squash/Raiders

Categories: Review: Software
Author: S.S.
Publisher: CGL
Machine: Sord M5

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #69

This package consists of three games.

Lander is, as you can probably guess, the classic moon landing game. It's badly implemented and, worst of all, I found it impossible to actually land.

In Squash, you move a bat up and down to keep a ball in court for as long as possible. Every time the ball hits the wall, your score is incremented. No knocking down bricks. Graphics and sound leave a lot to be desired and the game itself is unoriginal and boring.

In Raiders, you control a fighter plane moving left and right and shooting down the enemy planes which fly down screen. Although simple in concept, I found this game surprisingly addictive.

Since these are all written in Basic-I to run in 4K, the graphics and sounds are very crude compared with the cartridge games available for the Sord M5. What's more, they are all very unoriginal and, with the exception of the last one, very boring. Although together they only cost half as much as a cartridge, they are of very low quality and cannot be recommended very highly.

S.S.