| ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ TERRA COGNITA (c) CODEMASTERS ★ |
| Amstar | Popular Computing Weekly |
Code Master's brilliant début Code Masters have finally released their first batch of games, and there can be no doubt that if they keep this initial high standard up, Mastertronic and Firebird are at last going to have some significant competition on their hands. Terracognita has been written by Steve Curtis (author of that Mastertronic biggie Monaqueterrous) and it's solid budget fare. Nothing too demanding in the brain department, apart from reasonable map making skills, but your reflexes will know about it all right. You are faced with a screen scrolling vertically downwards - scattered with impassable walls with tiny gaps and the obligatory kamakazi aliens. Through this futuristic impression of Oxford Street on Christmas Eve, you must manoeuvre your spacecraft left, right, up and down, zapping like mad and trying to pass over certain special squares (giving bonus score, extra lives, extra fuel, etc) and avoid others (time warp ... it takes you back to the start, and 'speed up' squares that make the screen scroll faster). Code Masters say that there are about 100 screens worth of scrolling in the thing - so you can be assured that cracking it will take quite some time . . . even using the cheat I've discovered. Totally unlike his last offering, Steve has produced another little cracker - one that is certain to find its way into one or two Christmas stockings.
John Cook , Popular Computing Weekly |
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Page créée en 391 millisecondes et consultée 2359 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. |
