Reviews

Four game in one, air hockey, darts, ping pong and ten-pin bowling. Air hockey is quite good fun, it's fast and frantic but there's a tendency to score in your own goal rather than your opponent's goal. I won 12-5 and I think only 2 of them were actually goals, the rest were own goals. Darts is pretty bland with no sound during the game and I really don't like the throwing here with the angle and whatever is going on in the left, power? But it's really awkward and I struggled as a result. Plus you have a timer and if that runs out you can't throw any more in that game until it ends, I'm no darting expert but I'm certain there isn't a time limit. Ping Pong is similar maybe too similar to Imagine's Ping Pong game. You can set the paddle control to automatic so you can focus on hitting the ball which kind of defeats the purpose of a ping pong game but at the same time it makes it much easier for me as moving the paddle was a nightmare. Bowling has the ugliest graphics of them all and the most complicated to play. I kept fouling no matter what I did until I determine that you had to press fire at the last moment before he releases the ball, but even then I still got my arse kicked. This could have been a cracking program if the games weren't so complicated and the lack of instructions don't help. Only air hockey seemed to stand out for me, the other three didn't quite cut it, especially the darts game.

1987 Advance Software (UK)

This game was licenced from the original game by Design Star, which I never played, so I can't judge it, but if it's as mediocre as the Spectrum version, then I don't see the point of any conversions.
The game is comprised of 4 Indoor Games, which you can check on the loading screen, every single one of them as already been written and published before individualy (or not) by other authors and publishing houses and, dare I say, in a lot better versions. The Air Hockey game is dreadful, it plays too fast, and our pusher simple dissapears when you move it in the lower section of our playing area, plus most of the goals are auto-goals! What fun! The Darts game is completely useless with that obsolete angle thing, and can't even be compared with other great games such as Mastertronic 180, Bully's Sporting Darts, Jocky Wilson's or Wacky Darts. The Bowling game as a nice animated sequency, but with ugly graphics, and with a bit of practice may be enjoyable enough, but I think there are other more interesting and fun Bowling games around. Then you get Ping Pong, which is probably the only worthy game in this compilation as it plays similarly to Konami's Ping Pong.
So judging the package, and this is just my oppinion, 1 average, plus 1 good game out of 4, makes this a mediocre compilation.