Home Computing Weekly


Tumble Towers

Author: I.H.
Publisher: JRS Software Ltd
Machine: Sinclair ZX81

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #27

A word of praise for the JRS fastLoad system which downloads this large program every time, without fail, and in under 40 seconds flat!

Tumble Towers invites you to move a blob up a tower of ladders until the top is reached. Once at the top, you've won and the blob celebrates by diving from the topmost ladder into a small pool, making a large splash.

A split screen shows the tower on the left of the screen and the questions you have to answer are generated screen right.

These questions can be tricky! You are presented with a series of letters or numbers or graphics characters and it's up to you to find the next in the series. Of course, you're penalised if you take too long and your score is shown at the end of each run.

The program is menu-driven, runs well, is bug free, is written completely in Basic and uses tons of PRINT AT statements. The Menu shows the options open to you: instructions, demonstration, and three levels of difficulty.

A clever idea, thoughtfully presented and addictive in play.

I.H.

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