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1987-04-22
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Drop it on em
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By Shaw Software
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Review by Deano
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Public Domain
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It was a beautiful Friday morning in
early 1992, the sun was shining and the
birds were chirping fine melody's which
made Jason Donovan sound like a drunken
Warthog on heat. The mood was disturbed
by the clatter of the letterbox to
which I dropped the wife's shaving
brush and rushed to the door.
Upon completing the journey, I reached
the door to be greeted by a small soggy
Jiffy Bag. I pounced upon on and tore
it open with a fast beating heart and
stuck a calmmy mitt inside and pulled
out this game entitled 'Drop it on em'.
I rushed past the wife who was cutting
her toe nails with the chainsaw and
stuffed the clammy disk into my STE and
switched on, well, from that moment I
was completely hooked on it.
Drop it on em, is a type of Shoot Em Up
written in STOS, from pressing SPACE
from the title screen which shows a
fancy pattern and plays a Stos Tracker
song, you are given a one or two player
option and even a DEMO option.
The game screen consists of a row of
buildings and a balloon which moves
across the screen then moves down a bit
and moves across again until it reaches
the bottom of the screen.
The object of the game is simple. To
drop bombs on the building's and blow
them up, as the balloon moves, it drops
lower and closer to the buildings and
if it gets too low it crashes into any
existing building's and the game is
over, to clear each level you must
destroy each building before you get
too close, when the screen is clear the
balloon lands and you get a bonus, the
quicker you clear the screen, the more
bonus points you get.
The game has limited controls, both
mouse buttons are used to drop the
bombs and thats it. When each level is
completed you are greeted others which
has more and more buildings to destroy,
and each time they get higher. After
completing about 20 levels, the game
starts again but the balloon moves
faster making hitting the buildings
harder.
With a two player game you get two
balloons on the screen, player one
fires his bombs with the left mouse
button while player two uses the
joystick fire button. It's not always a
balloon you control though, sometimes
you get a plane or a spaceship.
Even though the game is simple and the
graphics are a wee bit naff, this is a
great game which will be stuck in your
collection for a long time.
Rating: 9 out of 10
Final word:
This is my first attempt at writing a
review and I hope you can understand
what I'm on about, but I promise that
future attempts will be better.
If you want this game then you can
order it either from MT Software or
send me a S.S.A.E with a disk and I'll
do you a copy.
My Address is:
Dean Sharples (Deano)
27 Turbary Walk
Milnrow Rochdale OL16 4JN
Right..... I'm off