1st June 1985
Wriggler
Not only do you get a great game when you get your hands on the Wriggler - you also get Jean Michel Jarre-style music to play as you play!
The Wriggler is a cute maggot - and he's competing in the great Annual Maggot Marathon, the most dangerous and spectacular event in the insect sporting world.
You have to guide your maggot through a massive maze-like course of 256 screens which begin peacefully enough in the garden, move on the scrubland, into the underground then finally to a mansion and lift shaft. But whatever you do - don't go to Hell!
There are lots of puzzles to be solved along the way and various creatures to be avoided. But at least there's lots of cups of tea to be had along the way!
The graphics and sound are excellent and the game is totally addictive.
I particularly liked the way the Wriggler "dies" when you run out of energy - or into a nasty. He is reduced to a crumbling pile of dinosaur-like bones!
This is Romantic Robot's first venture into the games market - and if this is an example of the quality of their product then they are a name to be watched.
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