Personal Compuer Games


Apple Jam

Author: CA
Publisher: DK Tronics
Machine: Spectrum 16K

 
Published in Personal Computer Games #4

Apple Jam

This one is guaranteed to make you sick. Apples are falling off the end of a conveyor belt and jam is dripping from the nozzle of a machine. It's your disgusting duty to stand under each piece of apparatus in turn so that as much food as possible falls into your mouth.

With each gulp you grow visibly fatter until - the sick part - you have a fit. This costs you a pill, and since you have only three you need to keep slimming down by running into a sauna.

But, oh dear, this means that the sticky yuk you should be scoffing is falling to the ground and being slurped by little rats. Which get bigger the more they consume. And when they're very big they run on to your level to attack you.

Your only escape is to tear into a lift which shoots up and down automatically. If you time it right, you come down on top of a rat and crush it (causing a red stain which gets a bit bigger each time - another revolting touch!).

One final hazard is a nasty-looking hornet with a fatal sting. Apple Jam is clever in that the game's considerable variety is achieved with the use of just two keys: left and right. This means you can enjoy playing it immediately - but it should still offer prolonged entertainment.

CA

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