Games Computing


Froglet - Battleships

Publisher: Timeless
Machine: TI99/4A

 
Published in Games Computing #4

Froglet - Battleships (Timeless)

This tape contains two programs - Froglet, a version of Frogger, and that well known favourite, Battleships.

In Froglet, using either keyboard or joystick, you must race against time to safely cross road and river to each of your four frog homes and so obtain a high score. You have traffic to avoid, of course, and the river must be jumped across using the floating logs, lily pads and turtles. When near to a home an unfriendly occupant may appear, in which case a safer place to land must be found. You have three lives in every game, but as each screen is completed, the next becomes more difficult.

In Battleships one player competes against the computer, the winner being the first to locate and destroy the other's fleet. There is a choice of three skill levels, each of which controls how intelligently the computer's guesses are made. The screen displays two 10 x 10 grids - one to record your guesses, the other to show the deployment of your fleet and each guess made by the computer. The only instructions provided are those on screen. Unfortunately, they appear so fleetingly that about three RUNs are necessary to read them all properly.