Reviews

1983 Virgin Games Ltd (UK)
by Keith Mitchell

I had forgotten all about this little title from 1983.
There is nothing much to discover here, frankly, but there are some nice touches, like the guards flashlight which reminds me an old handheld game, I think manufactured by Bandai, and a few other details. This is obviously a curiosity nowadays, nothing to get excited about or probe into, but it is still completely playable and fun if you like this sort of BASIC games.
One thing you cant complaint about this BASIC written games is how they toy around with our imagination, I bet a kid today would take time finding the 'flashlight' representation.

- What flashlight?
- There, the torch, cant you see the torch?
- Torch? What torch?!
- On the right, the purple... thingy.
- Oh! Wow Dad, you played really crappy games.

The idea behind this title is interesting but the game is almost unplayable due to the impredictable laser beam in the 1st screen ,,, this makes things very frustrating because you don´t know where the laser is going to be next so you cannot set a strategy ...

If you could set a strategy for each screen ,,, this would be a better game .

The graphics and sound fxs are pretty poor to the point of resembling a ZX81 16k production rather than a 48k video-game .

Cute, simple and funny game.

The objetive is the safe in a castle dungeon.

It consists of three original screens to try. UDG graphics don't avoid a good game made in 1983 but still enjoyable.

Love this for what it is, a phenotypical early Spectrum game with heart and imagination.
Character-square your flickery UDG character around the screen, avoiding nasties, on your three screen quest to rob stuff.
It has BASIC charms, which makes it hugely endearing and nostalgic, but also makes it too crap for a score above 3/5.