Home Computing Weekly
24th January 1984
If a spider in the bath gives you the shivers then Rapedes - "The centipedes' revenge" - is perhaps one to avoid because you are confronted not only with giant arachnids but Spectrum owner eating snails and centipedes to boot.
Basically, it's a traditional space invader-type game where aliens have been replaced by assorted creepies which advance down the screen through a field of mushrooms.
Graphics are fair with a particularly ugly spider and I found the text used for instructions and scores to be much clearer than many games.
There are five speed levels, on the highest of which life is usually short and so hectic that the hold feature is very useful in order to take a breather, sort out your next move or simply fetch a tin of insecticide. The option to use a Kempston joystick is available and would make life much easier.
On the whole, it will appeal to those in search of "blast everything in sight" games. But, while by no means a bad game, I found interest began to wane quite quickly.
