Games Computing


Nifty Lifty

Publisher: Visions
Machine: BBC Model A & B

 
Published in Games Computing #10

Nifty Lifty (Visions)

There is very little that can be said to describe this game. You are on the ultimate shopping trip - you take everything. You move up the screen floor by floor avoiding getting hit by the lifts that move up and down.

The number of lifts and the speed at which they travel increases as you complete more and more screens. At higher levels there is more than one lift per lift shaft and using some new law of physics they allow lifts to go up and down in the same shaft.

The use of graphics is very good but the sound lets the program down. Like many games now coming on the market it asks if you want music while it loads. If you select yes it plays what is at first a very nice tune but it continues even when the main program has been loaded. There is no way of stopping it except by pressing Break.

There is little skill involved in this game as your only controls are left and right - but younger users might enjoy it. It got a bit boring after the first few levels.