1st September 1986
I.C.U.P.S.
I.C.U.P.S. is a straightforward game in two parts. Neither part is particularly thrilling. In the first stage, you find yourself in a fighter, pointing towards the top of the screen. On either side, a wall of multi-coloured metalwork zooms past at breakneck speed. It's very smooth.
The aim of part one is simply to survive. As soon as you leave the safety of your mothership, a swarm of enemy fighters will surround you, and shoot the crap out of you without a moment's notice! Using the joystick, you can manoeuvre around the screen, dodging and shooting the nasties.
After completing a handful of these screens, you will be automatically transported to the second stage. Here things get a lot more interesting. You are now a strange sort of alien character, with a jetpac. And you fly around a complicated cave system, zapping tomatoes and other strange objects.
Get the picture?
Yup, it's not any good at all. And for £9.95, you could get a much better game - twice over.
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