| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ POSTER PASTER (c) AMSOFT ★ |
Personal Computer Games |
If you thought putting posters all over a town would be a messy or tedious job. then take a look at this game. As Bill Posters you have to paste up hoardings while protecting yourself, your posters and your glue from the Gnurds. Wazzocks and Drain Brains. This calls for a mixture of joystick dexterity and fast reactions. On each screen you have a paste bucket, brush, ladder and a box of posters. Using these tools of your trade you must first get a sticker out of its box by positioning your hand over it and pressing fire. Then, by walking along the gutter, you can move the ladder to the appropriate place and climb up it. At this stage the poster can still be moved a little before finally pressing fire to hang it. If you've got it right it drops into position and you can get the next part of the picture. Otherwise it will roll off and you'll have to start all over again Posters have to be placed so that a blue rim can be seen along the top and right hand side. Where there is no border it's either a matter of guesswork or sometimes you'll find the topmost rung on the ladder automatically puts you at the right height. Precision hanging isn't your only problem (hough, different anti poster pests will appear to try and touch you. If they succeed you die. One variety of beast is a pair of waving hands, which if allowed to reach your box can mix up the order of your posters. This can be disastrous if you have eight rolls of paper to put up. You will be looking for the right ones all day. Aquatic Wazzocks can be either help or hindrance since they dilute your paste. This is great it your glue has dried out and has gone solid but terrible if it gets so runny that your posters won't slick. As you complete more hoardings the difficulty of the pictures and the number of menaces marauding the pavement increases. All of these can be dealt with by a deft flick of the paste brush sending a glob of glue smacking into the monster's mush. I found it a very novel game which after initial playability doubts became completely absorbing. Bob Wade, PCG |
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