★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ ROBIN HOOD (c) CODEMASTERS ★ |
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Robin Hood's daily grind of deer hunting, tax inspector baiting and robbing the editors to give to the freelance contributors is rudely shattered when the evil dastard, Wogan the Sheriff of Nottingham, ensnares the fair Maid Marian and locks her in the East Tower of Nottingham Castle. Sherwood Forest 0, Nottingham Forest 1. She will only be released when Robin surrenders, or King John sends a 747 with heavy arms and a cake. Cakes are out, so it's up to that medieval macho man, Robin, to do the business. Pausing only to snatch a quiverful of arrows from Ronnie the fletcher, Robin (I quote) "sets out through Sherwood Forest to Nottingham Castle to free his love, oblivious to the inevitable dangers that lie before him". Ignoring the fact that if he really is oblivious to roomfulls of soldiers, pikestaffs and longswords he's soon going to be at a dead schloss, we can see that true love is once again running as smooth as a hedgehog on heat. Once in the castle the fun begins. The Sheriffs fortress has a large number of interconnecting rooms, with platforms on various levels linked by ladders. Robin can scurry up and down the ladders, along the platforms and on the various mechanical lifts that are dotted about. These only work occasionally, and Robin needs to get to the right key to start them up. Other bits of platform float through the air, vanish or spin in empty space. Still, everybody knows that Sherwood is renowned for its peculiar species of magic mushroom. Could explain the merry men . . . In an amazing amalgam of microgame mantraps there are the fireball from Donkey Kong, the spiders from Centipede, the rats from 3D Tunnel and the infrastructure from Any Platform Game You Care To Mention (Manic Miner, for example). Should Robby fall foul of any of these his energysupply will be depleted until at zero he becomes an ex-archer (wrong game). Rumours that Sheriff Wogan is in fact Dr Christian Barnaard in drag are strengthened by the large number of hearts left decorating the fort. And they're still beating. Robin has to collect these cardiac components before attempting to spring the maiden. There are other arrowsmiths around to do a bit of thwarting, but Green Robbo can dodge their deadly darts and prang them with his inexhaustable supply of shafts. ACU #8703
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Page créée en 243 millisecondes et consultée 3206 fois L'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |