| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ PUB GAMES (c) ALLIGATA ★ |
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Pub games seem to be dying out in nowadays — fruit machines and pints of extremely fizzy lager seem to be more popular forms of entertainment. But now, courtesy of ALLIGATA. there's the chance to resuscitate some of these age old games in the comfort of your home. This compilation pack is designed to be played by two players, starting from side one and working through all seven games. There's also a practice option to help you get into the swing of things. The first event is darts, in which both players try to work their way down to zero from either 301 or 501 in the best of three games. Three darts are provided, and a little character on the left of the boards throws with a press of the space bar once you've aligned the dart to your satisfaction, moving up. down, left and right. Just to make things a little bit harder the computer has a spot of the shakes, so perfect timing is necessary to get an accurate shot. Next, comes bar billiards. This Is played with eight balls on a special table with holes in the surface. The object is to score as many points as possible by potting the balls, avoiding penalty mushrooms situated at inconvenient points around the table. There are seven white balls and one red. Each hole has a different points value when a ball falls into it and the red ball doubles that value.
A foul is recorded if you fail to hit a ball or accidentally knock over a white mushroom or if any ball returns over the baulk line. Knocking over the black mushroom reduces your score in the game to zero. You have ten minutes of play after which potted balls are not returned to you. Dominoes is next with both players trying to get rid of all of their dominoes by adding them to the dommies on the table' according to the usual rules — best of three games again The second side of the cassette In Pontoon, the aim is to get a hand of cards with a combined face value of twenty-one. or as close to twenty-one as possible. Starting with two cards which you can twist (have an other card given to you which the other player sees), buy (get another card which only you see) or stick (keep the cards you already have). You can 'burn' an entire hand after the deal — hand it in and get a new set of cards. Ten hands are played, and the overall winner gets to pocket the whole kitty. After a game of Pontoon what could be better than a spicy game of poker? Keys 1 through to 5 control the five cards dealt and these can be thrown away or kept depending on how good the hand is. Usual poker rules apply, as detailed m the inlay. Skittles is the final challenge: after lining up your ball, pressing a key sends it racing down the ally, hopefully resulting in a strike. There are ten bowls per game and five separate games in all.
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Page créée en 362 millisecondes et consultée 3086 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. |
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