Computer Gamer


Spindizzy
By Electric Dreams
Spectrum 48K

 
Published in Computer Gamer #15

Spindizzy

Spindizzy, the superb 3D maze exploration game featured for the Amstrad two months ago, is now available for C64 and Spectrum computers.

In the game, you have to guide Gerald, a marble/gyroscope/top, around 385 screens in an attempt to map it all.

Unfortunately you only have 100 seconds to do this in! To make things worse, the screens are packed with treacherous slopes, gaping chasms you must leap, as well as the odd nasty to get in your way. Any disasters caused by these deducts time, leaving you even less.

Luckily, you can gain some vital seconds for every new screen you discover as well as for collecting the diamonds scattered throughout the maze. However these all seem to be in such impossible positions that you will have to bounce across trampolnes or leap across chasms or move across narrow paths to get to them.

Add to that lifts to take you from one level to the next, a map of the whole maze and four different views of each screen and you have a game that will challenge you for weeks.