C&VG


Hoppin' Mad

Publisher: Encore
Machine: Amstrad CPC464/664/6128

 
Published in Computer & Video Games #103

Hoppin' Mad

Life is tough when you're a rubber ball, and even tougher when you're four rubber balls, as this surreal piece of software shows. The scrolling landscapes are packed with enemies - bees, rocks, worms, and worst of all, nasty, spiky cactus plants - which your spherical quartet have to bounce over if they're to remain un-punctured. To progress to the next level you have to satisfy your balls' rubber fixation by collecting a quota of drifting balloons.

It's a brainless, jolly sort of game with adequate graphic and sound accoutrements, but the action is unlikely to get the pulse racing, even in a chronic angina patient.

Amstrad

A cute but unexciting game. Buy it for your little sister.