Home Computing Weekly


Super Glooper/Frogs

Author: C.C.R.
Publisher: Sinclair Research
Machine: Sinclair ZX81

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #17

Super Glooper moves around a maze, 'painting' it as he goes, and avoiding the aliens - unless he has picked up a shield which allows him to destroy them. When one maze has been completely painted a more difficult one appears.

The controls for each direction are provided by any key in several 'blocks' which means that you may position your fingers in any manner you find comfortable.

Frogs is of course Frogger. In this version the poor amphibian has to cross not a road but a river, by jumping from boat to boat - if he falls in, he's had it (although why this would be fatal to a frog I don't see) - and then on to one of the jetties on the far side.

Each jetty can only be used once per game, so take care; as the final column of boats moves from left to right, the jetty on the extreme left is very difficult to reach.

The boats move in alternate columns which travel left and right; once your frog has left the safety of the riverbank great concentration is required to land him safely on the other side.

I enjoyed 'Frogs' much more than 'Super Glooper', but they are both very adequately-produced games, and fun to play if you are not already over-familiar with them. Having two games on one cassette makes for better value, too.

C.C.R.

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