Reviews

1986 K'Soft Ltd (UK)
by Ron Heathfield

A very simple game where you play a flying saucer and have to catch parts of an automobile ala 'Turmoil' or 'Automania', and then beam up the green toolbox to assemble the parts, while staying clear of meteors, birds, etc. Of course by 1986 this game was incredible outdated, but if you don't take that into account and like the simplicity of the early games, you may enjoy this for a couple of plays.

Keys: O,P,Q,A, Space

A very singular and charming video-game . Galactic Mechanic is quite unique . colorful and pretty original .

I don´t know how to describe this , the u.f.o. is huge , over-sized , out of proportion you could say ,,, it plays well whatsoever .

If you like bizarre-looking games , Galactic Mechanic is worth a try . ;)


2,5 out of 5 .

Ok, you control a starship in a single screen environment, and you must, of course, collect the pieces of an automobile, falling from the sky, one by one, each time beaming the piece to the toolbox below, intelligently moving left and right all the time at ground level. At the same time there are a whole lotta nasties trying to make your job more difficult, including birds, nonetheless, but you can shoot them. I don't think there's much else to say. It looks terrible dated and the gameplay is simplistic and based on a silly premise, but 1986 blockbusters from big software houses like Ocean Software, namingly Knight Rider, Highlander or Miami Vice, which, though more modern on the graphics side, were less playable or fun. 2/5