Games Computing


Spectrum Safari

Publisher: CDS
Machine: Spectrum 48K

 
Published in Games Computing #6

Spectrum Safari (CDS)

This is really nine games within one; they are: Catch the Koala, a high-low type guessing game; Maze of Crocodiles - the walls of the maze grid are crocodiles so you are advised not to bump into them; Leaping Lemmings - you are below a mass of leaping Lemmings and must avoid being hit by them (I don't quite get the importance of avoiding hurtling Lemmings, what can they do? Squeak you to death?); Snake Shoot, kill a number of snakes in a limited time; The Kicking Sheep, get the sheep to kick to a specified number; The Proud Lion - the Lion's name is briefly flashed on the screen and you have to remember it; Mathematical Marmosets, thousands of Marmosets (well, it seems like thousands, my mental arithmetic was never too hot) are displayed in the form of a mixed sum which you have a limited amount of time to solve; The Gambling Gorilla, he rolls three dice and you have to guess whether you will roll more or less; and finally Memory-Testing Elephant, a sort of Simon memory game.

As your three Safari travellers roam around they encounter the various games listed above, and failure in any of them means a traveller dies. It is a fairly interesting pot-pourri which will probably appeal to younger computer fans.