Personal Computing Today


Red Meanies

Publisher: Salamander
Machine: Dragon 32/64

 
Published in Personal Computing Today #26

Red Meanies

In this game you play the part of a cheese shuffler and wander around an intergalactic maze eating red cheeses but occasionally some very smelly green cheese. Unfortunately for you, there are also five nasty red meanies in the maze who will eat you. But, when you get a green cheese the smell given off changes them into blue loonies which you can eat!

Luckily you have two new inventions with you the "handy-dandy-super-intergalactic-cheese-detector-and-combination-toothbrush" and the "Acme digital fingernail clipper and red meanie counter". The first one tells you how many of each cheese type is in the maze and the second tells you how many are blue loonies and how many are red meanies.

The display is 3-dimensional and is set up to give you the impression of walking down a hallway. However, the wafer thin walls spoil this effect. It also doesn't show any cheese in the turnoffs or neighbouring passages which are visible.

Overall, I thought it was a good game but it did not have the excitement of a 2-D Pac-man.