Reviews

The atmosphere of this game is superb !!

It represents some kind of nightmare situation with a wide range of crazy characters. At some point the main characters will run naked all over the screen !!!

The game is full of bizarre details and the setting is creepy and pleasantly so !!!!!

The action takes place inside an abandoned theatre with an occult laboratory on its surroundings. cool , isn´t it ??

A gem. A classic. A dream of a game come true for the Spectrum.


Ps - Based upon a great movie .

1985 CRL (UK)
by Jeff Lee, Ian Ellery, Jared and Jay Derrett

Your loved one (either Janet or Brad) has been abducted by the evil Dr. Frank'n'Furter who has activated the diabolical Medusa machine to turn her/him into solid stone.

However, Dr. Frank has also dismantled the De-Medusa, another machine that has been designed to reverse the petrification process, and has scattered the parts around the castle. Your quest is to collect the pieces and assemble the De-Medusa machine in a specific place, and by so saving your beloved from turning into solid stone.

The game was adapted from a movie with the same name. And like the movie you find yourself surrounded by strangeness.
Very playable, nice graphics and with an amazing old movie horror atmosphere.

I only knew it was based on a theater play many years after I first played it.

I love(d) this game. The atmosphere is really well created, both before playing it and during that. The house is detailed, there are some stressing moments and time is short, my friend. Oh, I forgot: neither Riff Raff nor anybody there will help you to save your beloved Janet (or Brad).

Great, grand, unforgettable game!

This is really good fun. Its gameplay is great that will keep you going and this has a brilliant rendition of Time Warp on the 128K version. I really enjoyed this one.

The Rocky Horror Show is a real pleasure to play. The attention to detail is briliiant. It's totally bonkers of course but then so are all the best things in life!

A perfectly chosen theatre and movie tie in for the closet and non-closet cross-dressing Spec-chum community, the Rocky Horror picture show sits alongside Frankie Goes to Hollywood contending for 1985's strangest official licence brief.

Here, in the heart of a game that swapped hands in playgrounds, is a game with an illicit drug repository room with bouncing wacky mushrooms and madcap hyperdermics!

But enough of the needle as in terms of atmosphere and cute graphics Rocky Horror is a winner, with most characters present and immediately recognisable. The humour and some of the storyline is intact as well, a rarity for any Spectrum licence.

The game also feels unique, the graphics, independent sprites, the slight 3D perspective, the lines from the film the characters spout, and the strange lack of threat to survival combine to evoke odd.

Yes, dying is perfectly possibly as Riff Raff can blast you or the spark can zap you, but there are moments of strolling the spaceship mansion trouble free.

Tension is accordingly often missing amidst the drama, although anxious clockwatchers will feel the heat - the time limit for the game is very tight.

Anyhow, Rocky Horror looks nice, and plays well enough, but it isn't a classic. For completionists the back and forth time tight project stops being charming and becomes a traipse, whilst 15 rooms is not enough mansion or variety for would be explorers of Frankenfurter's darkest desires.

One of the funniest horror games for the Spectrum. Take the role of either Brad or Janet, in a crazy plot: Dr. Frank'n'Furter has kidnapped your partner and turned him/her into stone, so you must collect the pieces of the machine that will reverse the petrification process, scattered in Dr. Frank'n'Furter's castle, which is a 'disguised spaceship', by the way.

So the question is simple: find a piece, take it to the screen where you put up all the pieces and then return to find more pieces, in a limited time, with only one life, avoiding many bizarre & freak characters along the castle/spaceship. And all this makes a great, addictive game. The detailed graphics are not the best point of this game, but you know, nobody's perfect!