Here's an extract from the title page. "You are the commander of
a nuclear-elastic powered warship. Your mission is to find your
way through the mine field for your ship and the troop ship you are
escorting. The troopship must be safely docked at the landing stage.
To do this you have to destroy the shore batteries which are protected
by helicopters armed with anti-ship missiles. A hostile submarine has
been contacted and is closing in. You will be under constant fire as
you negotiate the mine field..."
In fact, in this 100 per cent Basic, supposedly strategy game, all
you do is guide the little ship with the cursor keys through blue
dots, blast the occasional helicopter hoping you don't get blasted
into a million pieces by one of the random missiles. The whole process,
to put it mildly, is a drag.
The graphics are really poor and the sound is unimaginatively boring.
The game itself is very repetitive and gets monotonous after the first
game. The cheaply produced inlay card, sparse instructions and childish
humour of the title page doesn't help either. In any case, what in the
world is a "Helecopter"?
31st July 1984
