| Genre: | Arcade Game: Adventure |
| Publisher: | Mastertronic |
| Cover Art Language: | English |
| Machine Compatibility: | Spectrum 48K, Spectrum 128K |
| Release: | Professionally released on Cassette |
| Available For: | Atari 400/800/600XL/800XL/130XE & Spectrum 48K |
| Compatible Emulators: | ZXSpin (PC (Windows)) Nutria (PC (MS-DOS)) |
| Original Release Date: | 1st November 1986 |
| Original Release Price: | £1.99 |
| Market Valuation: | £1.65 (How Is This Calculated?) |
| Item Weight: | 64g |
| Box Type: | Cassette Single Plastic Black |
| Author(s): | Stuart P. Middleton, Dave Stevenson, Lee Stevenson, Ray Tredoux & Chris Harvey |
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Crash
1st October 1986
A great, very responsive game with excellent use of colour, some very nice characters and good backdrops. Read Review
Sinclair User
7th August 1986
Not terribly original perhaps, but a very well implemented and visually appealing space adventure. Read Review
Your Sinclair
1st November 1986
For the most part the problems are of the standard 'find the use for the object' type. Nothing terribly exciting there! Read Review
ZX Computing
1st October 1986
Universal Hero isn't a flawless game, but it does have its good points, and, as always, Mastertronic are still giving more expensive games a run for their money. Read Review
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The Aim Of The Game
Gasp! Only seven seconds left to save the planet! How will you do it Burt?
Universal Hero has to save his skin and everybody else's by finding bits to repair a shuttle to get to a planet to pick up the spares to mend a space freighter which is out of control and about to blow him and his chances of getting back to Earth to atoms. Get it? Get this! A totally nail-biting, multi-dimensional, hi-resolutional Awesome Arcade Adventure, featuring:
- Vast and complex Maze
- Hi-resolution mega-detailed graphics
- Brilliant flicker - free sprites
- Realistic jet-pack thrust, rise, and fall movement
- True strategy gameplay techniques
- Nine object carrying capacity hero
And much, much more...
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| Download | What It Contains |
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