| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ IT'S A KNOCKOUT (c) OCEAN ★ |
| TILT | Computing with the Amstrad | Amstrad Action | Amstrad Acción |
It's a Knockout is the computer version of the multi-national TV program of the same name. It consists of five silly events and a mini marathon. The only thing missing is David Vine's commentary. The first event is Flying Flans. Two of your teammates launch flans into the air using a see saw and you must catch them on a tray. Harlem Hoppers is event number two. Your female partner stands on a camel's head and drops a ball so it runs up and down the humps and finally flies into the air. All you have to do is catch the ball. This wouldn't be too difficult were you not tethered to a length of elastic. In Titanic Drop you slide down a rope from the bow of a ship. Below you in the water are several rubber rings. To score points you let go of the rope and land in one of the rings.
Diet of Worms is a stomach churner of a game - run around the farmyard collecting worms as they rise to the surface. The final event is the obstacle race. You make your little men run by furiously waggling the joystick. Sometime during these events you will be called upon to compete in the mini marathon - the Bronte Bash. You control a crane from which is suspended a one ton weight. A dinosaur's head will appear at random from one of six craters in front of you. You move the crane left or right and try to drop the weight on to the unsuspecting dino. Neither the graphics nor the animation could be described as state of the art. The characters are chunky and the action slows down when there is more than one sprite on the screen. In its favour the game can be played by up to six people and, more importantly, it's fun. James Riddell, CWTA
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Page créée en 559 millisecondes et consultée 4015 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. |
