Reviews

i don't understand much of what happens. but the space whirl tends to hypnotize me.

Superb Mad Planets clone. I love how the background changes colour with each level and game plays very nice. The concept is simple, just shoot anything in front of you, perfect! Oh yeah and the music by Jas C. Brooke is awesome as well. Great game, hours of fun.

Very overrated shoot-em-up. Published with a lot of hype on the C64, it was a definite triumph of style over substance. On the Spectrum, the realisation is so sketchy that you can safely omit the style, and the game reveals itself for what it is - a basic space shooter with very little variety and irritatingly moving backgrounds.

This is really good fun but it's a shame there isn't more to it, it just seems to be the same throughout. It can also be quite difficult but overall I had fun with this game. The music is playing throughout is amazing and really helped me to enjoy this.

I never really saw much fuss in this game, it's simply too much of the same and there's little variety in it at all. The only thing that changes is the colour, apart from that the levels are constantly recycled with the same enemies. The music, which is very good, adds a particular amount of interest but it doesn't take long for that interest to fade off.

1988 Martech (UK)
by John Wilson and Jas Brooke

A bit confusing. Sometimes looks rushed and unfinished. Levels come and go without any warning, which is a bit annoying. The background although original, gets tiresome after awhile and our ship is depicted in one of the most uninteresting ways I've seen since Ad Astra. Despite functional and moderate fun, this game is IMO, a missed opportunity to do a different shooter from the rest of the bunch. Kudos only for trying.

Nice 128k tune but gameplay here leaves a lot to be desired . . . 2,5 out of 5 .

This confused me. First it autofires and spins when you shoot, then you have to fire and it stays still. I also found myself confused as to what is collectable at the start and what isn't. The shooting is offputting too, how many times must you shoot something before it explodes? Then when you die it proceeds to the next level anyway. But the icing on the cake is the high score screen is missing a V, so if you're called Vincent, Victor or Vladimir you're in trouble. To sum up this game it's certainly not mega and it isn't good either for that matter.

Great music but the game is pretty boring.

Vixen reminded me of the mediocrity of Martech games, even the best they were capable of.









ha ha ha I guess the Martech games all had Systematically one thing in common: they were embarrassing.
It did not matter if it was Vixen, Nemesis the Warlock or whatever, the poor people of Martech weren't able to come up with a winning formula
That is why I would like to name a game that without being too good can at least be considered the best of Martech , altough that in itself is not any warranty at least that's a kind of consolation prize.
In fact, Mega-Apocalypse wasn't by any strecht of imagination a real good game.
But at least it was somewhat average