Games Computing


Clerky

Publisher: Unique
Machine: Spectrum 48K

 
Published in Games Computing #12

Clerky (Unique)

Essentially this game is a question of using four keys (or a joystick) to drive a neatly animated clerk around a roughly square office. White letters are posted one at a time from one of six slots at the top, and drift down slowly. The aim is to pick it up (50 points) and deliver it to the left hand side for filing (100 points).

You lose one of four lives if you are hit by an inkpot (they move diagonally, and quite fast), or collide with a bouncing rubber.

There are ten levels, I signed off at level two (it could have become addictive!) The fame lacks the charm of Escape (remember those intelligent little dinosaurs?) or the complication of the many rooms of Atic Atac. But it's harmless enough, and fun.