Reviews

1984 Software Projects (UK)
by Jim Scarlett

What an incredible game!
Amazing how I hated this game as a kid and now fell in love with it. So simple yet so tricky to play.
Apparently it's said that the game is based on a Star Trek episode called ‘The Trouble With Tribbles.’
So you guide Brian Skywalker (there you go) and his trouble Tribbles thru the 5 screens, performing all the necessary tasks. Make sure you lead your mini Tribbles way from danger.
Cute graphics, nice colors, good sound, and an excellent gameplay that gradually becomes very addictive.
Just try it!

Strange funny game with mad game-play !

I really like absurd games like this one where you play the role of a Mr.Potatoe kind-of-character digging holes and building bridges .

Try Tribble Trubble for yourself ! words don´t do it justice !

3,5 / 5 .

You play a magenta coloured blob and have to shepherd a smaller little blob around otherwise he'll run off and get himself killed. You also have to dig up rocks and push them into the river or use them to kill the red spikey things. That's level one. I don't know what the other levels are like cos I didn't get that far.

Save the tribbles! Lead them through five screens/stages. Protect them from the strange creatures, waterfalls, cactus and whatever's.
In screen one you have apparently just landed with some spacecraft in a foreign planet. You must dig up rocks, in order to build a bridge over a river and then, for some reason, make the spaceship explode with a detonator.
The problem are the tribbles. They slowly get out of the spaceship, and starts running around, although just one at the time - when one dies, another one comes out - until you finish them, and once they are finished, you're finished too. Essentially, they are your lives, if not your life. In fact, if their slowly coming out of the spacecraft looks like a childbirth/delivery, the game can be interpreted like a sci fi/fantasy first approach at parenthood. Or a forerunner of Tamagotchi. In fact, the key problem of the game is care about the little ones, protect them, and also feed them [the latter happens on the second screens]. It is, I think, quite an original concept for the time, for a game. Or is it? And the way you interact with the tribbles is nice too: they run around on their own, risking to fall in the water, or to get caught by some volcanic creatures - but once you get very near them, they start following you - so you can indirectly control where they're going - BUT you must learn to wait for them, or, if you get too far from them again, they start running around randomly again.
So, I think it's perfectly clear, judging by the attention that I'm giving to the game, that I'm really liking it:
WELL, NOT REALLY, IT GETS ON MY NERVES.
2/5

Sadistic farming, a truly original game where you protect and nurture your Tribbles through five sheets of gameplay. Each stage is against the clock as air will run out if you don't shift so you will be tempted to take risks.
Each level is fairly well judged in terms of balanced gameplay with the third one, in which you must burst the bouncy things out of the way of your silly Tribbles, the most toe curlinglyy unforgiving in true old skool style.
Well designed arcade fun, a collection of 5 minigames with all of the playable, levels 1,2 and 5 especially so.
Weird squelchy sound FX also feature.
Classic Speccy weirdness.

To call this game a hassle is an understatement. The tribbles just constantly get themselves into all sorts of "trubble", hence its name. This is like a Pro Babysitter Simulator and it annoyed the hell out of me. Given this fella also wrote Flip Flap which was an abysmal Pinball game I looked at back in December my hopes weren't too high on this one and my premonitions were proven true. It's original, I'll give it that, but it was a total pain in the backside.