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Never Mind The Nasties

Categories: Review: Software
Publisher: Romantic Robot
Machine: Amstrad CPC464/664

 
Published in Computer & Video Games #66

Never Mind The Nasties

Romantic Robot has come with a platform game for the Amstrad called Never Mind The Nasties which, in true Jet Set Willy style, starts off inside our hero Harry's room, in his more-than-spacious house but ends up taking you on a whistle stop tour through an underground sewer complex past the quay to the caves and on to the moon, stopping off at an Egyptian tomb and the mad professor's laboratory on the way, not forgetting the stairway to heaven, cloud nine, the power plant, and the computer room en route.

Add to this such bizarre locations as "Lumberjack II" Squashynodoa's Revenge" and "Bats In The Belfry", throw in a liberal sprinkling of logic problems and screens requiring careful timing and stick control, and you have a pretty good idea what you're in for.

All the usual platform game features can be found lurking somewhere in this one including multiple exists from many locations (some of which require a key), plenty of bouncing, spinning, or sliding nasties of every description. There's even a lift which takes you to various places, depending on what keys you have.

The object of the game is to locate the professor's computer and stop it blowing up by collecting all the flashing objects in the 130+ screens before losing all of the five lives that you start with.

Although the graphics and sound in the game are nothing special, it should appeal to many platform-, and some arcade-adventure-, buffs, and is a definite challenge to map freaks everywhere.