Machine | Review Of | Quote | Score | ||
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![]() | Atari 400 | Batty Builders (English) | Batty Builders goes to show that technical expertise is no substitute for imagination. | 60% | |
![]() | TI99/4A | Battleships (Stainless) | Battleships is a nicely laid out program with adequate instructions given on-screen before the start of the game. | 75% | |
![]() | Commodore 64/128 | Eye (Endurance Games) | Basically a simple idea, much easier than chess to learn, but just as complex in its endless strategies. | 90% | |
![]() | Spectrum 16K | Orbiter (Silversoft) | Basically a good game, which would benefit from slight revisions. | 66% | |
![]() | BBC B/B+/Master 128 | Balls (Yes Marketing) | Balls is a game that deserves to do well. | 90% | |
![]() | BBC B/B+/Master 128 | Ballistix (Superior/Acornsoft) | Ballistix is a totally different game to any other that I have played... Superior would do well to bring out more like it in the future. | 80% | |
![]() | Spectrum 48K | Backgammon (CP) | Backgammon is quite addictive, so allow yourself plenty of time to get your own back on the computer! | 85% | |
![]() | Oric 16K | Death Satellite (A 'n F) | Awkward to start with... With a little more work, this could become a very good adventure. | 51% | |
![]() | Spectrum 48K | Cartoon Animation (Fowler) | Avoid this one. The ability to understand the instructions means you probably have enough knowledge to program a similar but better effect yourself! Describing this as "animation" insults the intelligence and there are many good utilities on the market offering far more for far less. | 21% | |
![]() | Oric 48K/Atmos | Microtext (Microplot) | Avoid like the plague - I lost a whole text for no apparent reason... I'm surprised any software house has the nerve to market a program of this quality. | 17% | |
![]() | BBC/Electron | American Suds (Riverdale) | Author David Edwards is fast becoming the unchallenged master of this genre of text adventures. | 90% | |
![]() | Spectrum 16K | Crevasse (Microsphere) | Attractive graphics, with a particularly handsome rabbit in the star role. | 66% | |
![]() | Commodore Vic 20 | Siege (Postern) | At £6.99 this game is very good value from one of the lesser-known software houses. | 73% | |
![]() | BBC Model B | Broadway Boogie And Classics (Broadway Electronics) | At £4.95, the cassette is fairly expensive but I feel it is worth it for the change from space games. | 45% | |
![]() | BBC Model B | Birdie Barrage (Computasolve) | At times it was difficult to see where the ball was - rather a handicap! | 68% | |
![]() | Spectrum 48K | Print Shop (Cases Computer Simulations) | At the end of a successful game, when fully expected to be congratulated and have my healthy profit figure confirmed, the screen just went blank! | 65% | |
![]() | BBC/Electron | 3D Dotty (Blue Ribbon) | At just £1.99, you can't really go wrong. | 60% | |
![]() | BBC/Electron | Mr. Wiz (Superior/Blue Ribbon) | At first release, this would have kept you happy for days or weeks; now just hours I'm afraid. | 60% | |
![]() | BBC Model B | Chuckie Egg (A 'n F) | At first it appears to be old territory revisited but... it grows on you and establishes itself as quite a good program in its own right. | 60% | |
![]() | TI99/4A | Runner On Treiton (Lantern) | At any time during the game, providing you have enough strength, you may enter one of the time warps on the map and be transported to another era on Treiton, where everything has changed position. | 75% |