| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ DEATH PIT (c) DURELL ★ |
| MICROSTRAD | Popular Computing Weekly | AMTIX |
SQUELCH ! More signs that the Amstrad machines can expect some pretty nifty software in months to come. DureU, respected for a number of games including Combat Lynx, has now released Death Pit for the AmstTad and it's an arcade game well up to Commodore standards, and maybe beyond. Plot-wise, it's pretty dull: move your little man around the mine shafts looking for gold and gems, then take them back to the tent for points. Lots of tunnels, lots of ladders, lots of large horrible creepy- crawlies and lots of vicious green sludge. However there is a little more to the game than that. You have to choose which items to carry with you - spades can kill some crawly things. Oxygen lets you go through the flooded parts of the mine. As you go deeper and deeper (80 screens-worth in all), so you need to plan ever more carefully. The graphics are really excellent, finely detailed and large, and the animation is similarly effective except when the creatures chase you up or down a ladder where they appear to float magically. Crowning glories of the graphics are the enormous dragon's to be found in the deepest part of the mine where, of course, the most valuable treasures are to be found. The music speeds up with the action, and features, among other nice sound effects, some delicious squelching noises. It's the pits, so play it.
Tony Kendle , Popular Computing Weekly |
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Page créée en 318 millisecondes et consultée 4429 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. |
