Home Computing Weekly


Lunar Base/Torpedo Fire

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

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #37

Leaving the safety of the mothership, you must guide your lunar pod through the asteroid belt to a lunar base standing above a marsh. After landing. your pod must immediately return to its mothership.

On lift-off the base disappears, leaving only marsh. Manoeuvres continue for as long as you have pods, scoring with each successful move.

When all landing bases have disappeared a new, more difficult set up is given and the game progresses.

Unfortunately there is one bug in what would otherwise be a crashproofed program - an INCORRECT STATEMENT IN 4340 turned out to be a typing error.

Torpedo Fire sends you down through oceanic depths to a submarine. Here you take charge of a five-position gun with which to torpedo war and cargo ships as they pass across I he surface.

There are five classes of vessel. worth different points, and in each game 25 ships. At the end of cl run your score and accuracy are displayed.

Left and right movements are conrrolled by the cursor keys.

Both games have good graphics and sound. Neither is disadvantaged by the inevitable slowness of TI Basic.

J.W.