Commodore User


Grid Trap

Publisher: Livewire
Machine: Commodore Vic 20

 
Published in Commodore User #10

Grid Trap

In this fast-moving all-action arcade game, your job is to defuse bombs which appear somewhere on the grid of traps - hence name Grid Trap.

You can control your man by keyboard or joystick; as you move, the traps disappear, and you get ten points for each trap you walk on, which gives good high scores. Each bomb has a 60-second fuse and, if you don't reach it in time, you lose a life.

But the game is not as simple as that: there are mines scattered all over the grid which explode if you step on them, and also there's the boot which stomps around the grid - it it happens to kick you, you lose a life... For extra points you can collect flags which lay about the grid. Once you have defused five bombs you go on to the next screen which has one more boot.

The graphics and the sound are good, with well-defined 3D-box traps and skull and crossbones representing the mines. The sound is good too, with a little tune being played as you go about your dangerous job.

An enjoyable game that anyone can play; not a patch on Gridrunner, though.