This game combines arcade action with strategy and
adventure. You must collect golden cups from 12 screens,
avoiding deadly ghosts. Your score is for objects collected and
also for speed. The LOAD instructions are very detailed.
On screen, you find left/right is Z/X. The demo shows screens
to come rather than actual play. End lifts connect six floors, each
containing a crown, a sword, a key, a jewel or cup and usually a
patrolling ghost.
Mounted on a motorbike, you travel via lift from floor to floor,
collecting objects.
The cup is between impassable brick walls, and some objects
refuse to be collected. Unless the lifts do reverse direction, some
floors appear impossible to reach from the necessary end. The
order in which you collect probably has some bearing.
Sound is good and graphics well done, particularly falling off, although
the white background gives an unfinished look.
Five lives are easily lost and the collected objects disappear
with the life. Frustration becomes boredom after three hours of
starting again. Try before you buy.
23rd October 1984
