Reviews

'Maze Mania' owes more than a little to 'Pacman' although the 'tile-turning' dynamic it uses is rather more satisfying than dot-munching and allows for more variety as some tiles need to be turned more than once to obtain the correct colour whilst others can see their turning reversed by wandering monsters. The graphics are generally clear and colourful and the gameplay is enjoyably hectic.

Run around a maze flipping tiles to the right colour. Fun for A while but soon gets boring.

Maze Mania is yet another maze game where you must color all the tiles in order to open the exit to the next level, so originality is not exactly its high point.

However, the game is very pleasing, with large, colorful and rather well-drawn graphics, decent sound and fast action. It's easy to pick up since the purpose is very simple, but hard to leave, also because the task you must accomplish is not always the same: sometimes you must avoid recurring the path you already took because this will make the tiles revert to their original color; in another level you must run through the path twice for the tiles to take the intended color; and so on. This means there is enough variety in the game to keep you interested.

A minor Hewson release, that is a simple top view maze game mixed with Mastertronic's Pippo.
It's very playable, it's colourful, and it's in my top 10 games from 1989.
4/5

While I've been away sick there's been quite the activity on this site which is always nice to see, but I'm better now so let's get cracking with some of these. This is one of Hewson's lesser known games, hugely overshadowed by Zynaps and the Cybernoid games. It's fine for what it is and it looks nice, but I can't quite help myself but to compare this to Pippo like The Dean did in his review. Now Pippo is a fantastic game and one of my favourites on the Speccy, and that was being sold for £1.99, this was sold for £9.99, and is this worth the money? Absolutely not. Sure it's larger but it just didn't feel as much fun as it should have been. And I think that will be why no-one at Hewson brings this game up so much nowadays, because they'd rather stick to their Zynaps and Cybernoids, where as for me, I'll stick to Pippo myself.