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Trailblazer

Categories: Review: Software
Publisher: Gremlin
Machine: Atari ST

 
Published in Computer & Video Games #68

Trailblazer

Trailblazer has been around on other formats for sometime now so you've probably got some idea of what it's all about.

You control a ball, which can bounce, roll to the left and right. Before you stretches a road of multi-coloured squares. But between these squares, there are black gaps, some small while others are huge - so big in fact that it seems impossible to avoid plunging into their depths. That is something to avoid.

As the speed builds up, you must bounce from square to square, hoping to leap the gaps. Experience will teach you that the different colours of the squares have different effects. Some will slow you down and others have a fatal effect.

Each level must be completed against the clock.

Everything about the game is nice. Excellent graphics, music and sound effects, addictive play. But at £24.95 I don't think the game offers enough to justify the price.