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Originally released by Insight at a price of £7.95. this game has quickly made its way into the ranks of budget games where it rightly belongs. It's a simple shoot-em-up similar to many others on the Amstrad, but you've only got to shell out a few pennies for it.
The familiar scenario involves a laser base at the bottom of the screen that you control to blast away at several types of alien birdie things flying down the screen. There are two common types of bird that whizz around screen in curving patterns; one of which shoots single bullets, while the other shoots a scatter of them. These are dealt with by a single shot. Bombs come in from the top of the screen and slowly descend, but when shot they explode into dangerous fragments. The last and toughest of the adversaries is a big bird that has to be hit several times before it dies. If the base gets into real trouble it can 'warp' a limited number of times. Warping causes it to move automatically up screen while invulnerable to the birds which you can kill on the way. When it goes off the top it reappears at the bottom of the screen, and you need to be ready so that it doesn't reappear in a hail of enemy fire. There is little variety in the bird's action and mostly it's just a matter of blasting away with a tiring finger at the same old formations. It's only £2 so you could do worse if you're looking for a mindless blast. BW, AMSTRAD ACTION n°12 |
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Page créée en 064 millisecondes et consultée 4332 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. |
