Reviews

While not a great game it's certainly a better Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy clone than Son of Blagger which I played earlier. Surely there are better clones but this is still a pretty nice game.

by James Closs
It was 1986, but still Jet Set Willy clones were popping out, from the radioactive undegrounds of budget labels. Consequently you have to collect the crystals avoiding the mutants, while exploring what's hiding under the earth surface, after a nuclear experiment gone wrong. Two features differentiate it from its source: the possibility of jumping on certain monsters, in a certain way, using them as trampolines to reach troublesome spots and platforms, and the fact that picking up the crystals may open walls and barriers, unblocking the way to new areas [like in Bug Byte's Antics]. The rest is almost exactly like a 1984 platform with pixel perfect requirements, almost UDG sprites, scarce animation, and buggy instances in which you die forever in the same screen, once fallen from a ledge.
So, it may be of interest to Jet Set Willy fans [which I've never been].
2,5/5

I liked this game at first, it's simple to get into and I was certainly enjoying it more than other JSW-type games I have played lately, but then I got to later levels and confusion began and the fun went away. It's not terrible, it's just not a lot of fun.