Home Computing Weekly


Scuba Attack

Author: B.B.
Publisher: Century
Machine: Spectrum 48K

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #96

For a long time I have lived with the idea that SCUBA was an acronym for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. Just what it means in this game I have no idea.

You appear to be in an underwater spaceship defending divers with air hoses, but definitely not Scuba divers. Every now and again, a surface vessel does appear, and something or other is lowered down, but what is hard to tell.

When I tell you that you have Krypton lasers together with sonic bombs, you might be excused from thinking that you are in a space battle. But this time, the 'aliens' do resemble jellyfish.

I found no evidence of the wreck the divers were supposedly investigating, and the jellyfish defending.

Although everything moved smoothly, and the keyboard response was positive, there is nothing in this game to hold your attention.

B.B.

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