| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ BLAGGER (c) ALLIGATA ★ |
| TILT | Popular Computing Weekly | Personal Computer Games |
Telephones It is ironic that Blagger and Manic Miner should stand side by side underneath the Amstrad banner because I remember once hearing from some of the Software Projects team how they resented Blagger as an aptly named rip-off of Matthew Smith's game ideas. Whatever your feeling about the justice of such a claim there is no doubt that the platform game format is becoming very old hat and new releases of the type are only redeemed by adding sufficiently new twists or humourous touches to the basic formula - for example, the forthcoming Brian Bloodaxe by the Edge. Blagger however was the first such copy and has nothing new to offer at all being an almost exact reproduction of the elements that went into Manic Miner, including telephones, conveyor belts and disintegrating platforms. Side by side, there is little to choose between the two. Both have twenty screens of comparable fiendishness. Being originally designed for the Commodore it is no surprise that Blagger has better use of colour and good music but movement of the central character is poorer than in Manic Miner and it lacks the latter's sense of humour. Still, people who still own a working Spectrum will not want to pay for another copy of Manic Miner and Blagger represents a good buy giving you twenty new screens to conquer.
Tony Kendle , Popular Computing Weekly |
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Page créée en 075 millisecondes et consultée 5264 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. |
