Home Computing Weekly


Quack A Jack

Author: D.C.
Publisher: Amsoft
Machine: Amstrad CPC464

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #90

This is the first version of Blockman that I have seen for this machine and it is an interesting if slightly quirky version.

You play Red Jack the pirate kind and you have a three-fold mission. You are expected to survive, to collect wealth and to scramble eggs. The eggs are found on a grid of flags, which, as you walk across, crumble away to nothing and prevent you from returning by that path.

You are a duck and wander around avoiding cooking pots.

Quack A Jack

I said that this was quirky.

You are chased by creatures from vampire rabbits to prawns and snails. The only graphic characters that are convincing are the duck and the eggs, which flash pink and blue. Well, what do you expect from a terraductile! The other characters are all a little chunky and ill-defined especially the piles of coins which look more like bird droppings.

A good game that might just grab you and make you play just once more.

D.C.

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