Home Computing Weekly


New Cylon Attack
By A 'n F
Spectrum 48K

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #93

The first thing that you notice when loading this tape is that it won't! The inlay card states LOAD"", but in actual fact you must LOAD""CODE, which can confuse newcomers to computing.

Once loaded, you do have a menu from which to choose, such as re-define the keyboard, or look at the instructions. All the text uses a re-defined character set which looks a bit spacey, but is not the easiest to read.

The theme of the game is to shoot down waves of attacking space ships which have been sent by the Cylons. There are the now usual status displays: fuel, energy shields, RADAR, etc.

When you find yourself running out of fuel you must find the mothership and attempt a docking. The response to the keyboard controls is very positive, with very smooth movement of everything on the screen. If you have not yet had your fill of the shoot-'em-up type games then you might like to try this one.

Not what I would call addictive, but then so very few are.

B.B.

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