Games Computing


The Trap

Publisher: IMS Software
Machine: Spectrum 16K

 
Published in Games Computing #7

The Trap (IMS Software)

This adventure game is one of the slowest games I have ever come across. It's slow, terribly boring, and a total waste of money. On one side of the tape are full instructions and the game.

The object is to get the bridge keys and then get to citadels. The screen shows any one of nine sectors. You have several lasers and force fields.

The annoying thing is that you have a time limit and can only move about one character space a second. When I played it, I got thoroughly bored on my first game. Graphics are unheard of, with about one UDG in the whole game. The idea is that it is a test of guilt to see whether you committed a murder or not.

Verdict: one of those games that you play once and get totally browned off and maddened about. It's about as addictive as counting grains of sand on the beach.