Home Computing Weekly


Mutant Herd

Author: Tom Donald
Publisher: Thorn EMI
Machine: Commodore Vic 20

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #17

This is a two stage game, and an odd one. Using crossed laser beams, the player shunts great packs of mutant beasties around the screen. There are little mutie-killers on the loose as well, and our task is to herd them down burrows where their talent for mayhem may be most effectively expressed.

No bunnies inhabit these burrows, rather hideous mutant-mothers laying the eggs of a new generation of creeping things. The second part of the game involves the destruction of these eggs and finally the extinction of the egg layer herself.

The game is original and very well presented. If you are yourself a mutant monster with an unresolved Oedipal complex then playing this game could precipitate a psychiatric crisis; otherwise you will probably have a reasonable amount of fun...

Tom Donald

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