Previous Next

A terrible responsibility rests on your shoulders when you play this game: 'The future of Italian catering depends on you!' If you can imagine a world without spaghetti alla carbonara, crisp pizzas and enormous tutti fruttis, then you won't be bothered. But I was.

The scenario has you, armed only with a sauce squirter, trying to fight off the Ravenous Ravioli Robbers and the Plundering Pasta Pinchers as they attempt to strip you of your ravioli tins (no fresh ingredients here).

The game plays rather like a cross between Centipede and Asteroids. In the middle of the screen is your squirter - a red container reminiscent of the large plastic tomatoes that used to hold ketchup in Wimpy Bars. At the sides are the six purple ravioli tins you are trying to protect.

You can rotate and accelerate your squirter while firing at the thieving culinary villains. These come principally in the form of Pasta Pinchas, amoeba-like creatures in green, blue and yellow who wriggle on to make off with your tins. It's essential to stop them since when your squirter is squashed a ravioli tin turns into your new weapon.

Vicious Pac-Persons will go for the squirter. Type A is 'mindless' and can be easily killed or avoided, but type B is more intelligent and will make straight for you.

As your Pasta Powder level at the bottom of the screen goes down you have to try and gobble the pill which appears. This can prove tricky, as steering the squirter is not the easiest of tasks.

Pasta Blasta is an enjoyable game with a witty scenario. Graphics are very colourful and the movement is reasonably smooth. The sound is also fun with lots of squelches and splats.