John Kennedy with a fast and colourful Basic game for the Amstrad. Here is a rare creature to find in the pages of Your Computer — a main game written in Basic. No multiple listings, no complicated saving instructions, no hex loader, and not an ounce of machine code — Englebert is 100 per cent pure Basic. Key it in, save it and Run. You will be rewarded with a fast moving, high-quality arcade game, which gives a good demonstration of the speed of Amstrads Locomotive Basic — it is fast enough ta achieve effects that are only possible in machine code on other machines. Englebert is a variation en the Q-bert theme. The object is to jump around a pyramid of blocks leaving footprints as you go. If you clear the sheet, by covering the pyramid completely, a new pattern of blocke will appear. If you jump off the pyramid, or if you are hit by the squashy ball thing, you loose a life. At higher levels there are two squashy balls to cope with.   
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