Personal Computer Games


Pi-Eyed

Author: CA
Publisher: Automata
Machine: Spectrum 48K

 
Published in Personal Computer Games #5

Pi-Eyed

If you're a juvenile delinquent who doesn't mind paying a fiver for a few feeble jokes about vomit and getting drunk this is the perfect program for you!

Before you load it up you can have the thrill of playing the 'musical' number on the reverse side of the tape complete with lavatorial lyric.

Then run the game and get Pi-Man to lurch from bar to bar, bouncing off the furniture and drinking all the pints in view.

Pi-Eyed

The action is constantly interrupted by the laborious printing on screen of such things as Pi-Man's biological functions which every mindless yob will no doubt find hilarious.

Let's hope so, because the game itself is pathetic. Once he's been through the 'jokes', even the worst yob will hardly bother loading it twice.

To take just one example. Part of the game has Pi-Man running along a road trying to avoid traffic. The graphics here are abysmal and it's virtually impossible to control the character, so he's constantly being hit by cars.

This would be wonderful if it meant the end of the game. But instead you get the same message printed on the screen letter by letter, time after time 'You naughty Pi-Man. I'm going to have to take away ten points.' After a while this becomes so tedious it's unreal.

Automata claim to have a cult following for their trashy games. I can't believe this. Even delinquents must realize they can get better entertainment by perusing the wall of their local public toilet.

CA

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