Home Computing Weekly
27th September 1983
Categories: Review: Software
Author: B.P.
Publisher: Interceptor Micros
Machine: Commodore 64
Published in Home Computing Weekly #30
Panic 64 is a ladder game for the Commodore 64.
With your bombs, you blast holes in the different levels which you then have to entice the monsters to fall through. The higher the levels, the more floors they have to fall through to meet their doom.
An enjoyable game with good instructions and active on tactics to help you score a bonus but we did have a couple of problems.
Several times after escaping our pursuers and getting the holes lined up, the monsters suddenly got into a circuit from which they could not be enticed so as to fall through our trap.
The only way to break out of the pattern was to sacrifice a life - bad enough, but as this occurred mainly at the higher levels it was sometimes your last life.
We did manage to corrupt one of the sprites which make up the man and it made it very difficult to line him up on the ladders. I'm not sure how we did this, but it did mean reloading the program and starting again.
A joystick makes life easier but is not essential, as in many other games. Get rid of the bugs and value for money is much improved.
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