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- Saracoid, Ultron, Wizzy's Mansion, TRIPLE GAME PACK 1
- Alternative Software
- £2.99
- 1989
- Sent By: Peter Bay, M'BRO
-
- This is a pack of three games all on one cassette for the Acorn BBC
- or the Electron. I have taken the quotes from the inlay card:
-
- SARACOID
-
- GAME OVERVIEW
-
- The Saracoids are blob-like alien life forms that float through Outer
- Space, taking energy from any planet that they come across. For self
- defence, they group together in long strings that snake down through the
- atmosphere in various stage formations. The warning is out that the
- Saracoids may soon be passing by Earth. They will undoubtedly want to
- stop and repelish their energy supplies. You have been given the job of
- mannin the missile launcher with orders to prevent the Saracoids landing -
- for if they once touch the ground they mutate, taking on a
- different form, and immediately home in on the nearest living thing -
- which, in this case, is YOU! Good pilots may be able to survive by utilising
- the full monoeuvrability of the launcher. As well as moving from side to
- side on the ground, it can hover up to a certain altitude in the air. Radar
- has spotted 24 different waves coming in. You'd better get familiar with
- the controls quick!
-
- Peter:- This game is not too bad, but it sometimes gets a bit boring
- after about 5 goes, but it is not too bad. The graphics are quite good
- and so is the sound, the explosion effects are very convincing.
-
-
- ULTRON
-
- GAME OVERVIEW
-
- The year 2673 AD and the galaxy is once more under seige from aliens
- of the planet Gorfia. Your mission is to destroy the oncoming convoys
- with speed, skill and dexterity. This time the invaders are more
- sophisticated and much more determined to eradicate you. But you have
- the most powerful craft in the universe - the ULTRON.
-
- You begin your mission as a Cadet, but may rise through the ranks and
- become the ultimate Space Master. There are eight ranks to go through
- and even then it gets even harder. Four screens go together to make
- up one wave. The screens are...
-
- Space Swarmers - Swarming mutants who release hordes of homing missiles -
- worth 30 points.
-
- Glactic Imps - Approaching infantry whose sole aim is to infilrate your
- defences - 50 points
-
- Space Warp - Aliens that loom out in 3D distracting you with the aim of
- disintegrating your craft - 100 points.
-
- Mothership - Blast the alien's supreme commander, situated in the
- nerve centre of the Mothership - 200 points
-
- Occasionally a reconnaissance ship will fly past over the scene dropping
- missiles. The points for hitting the ship are radomly either 250 or 500
- points.
-
- Peter:- This is the gem of the pack, this game is really good. It is
- really a cross between that excellent game Pheonix and Galaxions.
- Great game play, and good graphics and sound.
-
-
- More next disk. We need more!
-
- Dan Wood
- 3 Cavendish Drive
- Northlands
- Darlington
- DL1 2GQ
-