Personal Compuer Games


Gamestape One
By Fawkes Computing
Sinclair ZX81

 
Published in Personal Computer Games #6

Gamestape One

This offering from Fawkes Computing has four games on it: three in machine code and one in good old Basic. The games are Dodge It, Trojan Dragon, Death Trap and Tablets of Hippocrates.

Death Trap is a variant of Dodgems. The difference is that there are dots (a la Pac-Man) which you must eat on your travels. Eating the dots leaves crumbs which can only be eaten when all the dots are cleared. A strawberry earns you some bonus points.

The game itself is OK, but unlike many versions you can't accelerate to avoid a possible clash. What you can do is switch to any lane at a clearing, but the monster can only change by one lane at a time.

The next best game is Trojan Dragon, where you control a drawbridge and a man with a sword. Here, you must stop the baddies from getting into the castle, but let the goodies in. Both can come from the bottom of the screen to the drawbridge or be carried up the Dragon's back.

The game offers different levels of difficulty, and the game gets faster as it goes on. Good fun.

The last two games, Death Trap and Tablets of Hippocrates are not fun at all. Dead boring would be a better description.

In Death Trap, you are a blob trying to avoid being boxed in by other blobs, and in Tablets (an excuse for an adventure), you have to 'find the cure for cancer'.

Unfortunately, Gamestape One from Fawkes Computing is below the normal standard you would expect from a gamestape, and I suggest you shop elsewhere.

DJ

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