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Gerpeas Pinball Squid Productions
Klick & Play
grade

Reviewed: 1997 

- The game

Yet another Klick&Play pinball, and it is just as good as the other K&P pinball I have played, that is no good. The pinball do have its special kind of charm. The idea behind it is sort a funny, but in the whole the pinball is nothing you really want ;) It is a freeware product so there is no bigger danger in trying it out.

It is funny though, the Gerpeas look very similar to Lemmings and the Antenna I will tell about later looks very similar to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, but I'm probably wrong :)


- The tables

- Gerpeas

broken towerthe towerThe table layout is simple with a couple of bumpers, four flippers and a fan. The theme is kind a funny though: In the middle of the screen (more as a part of the background) is an antenna. When the ball rolls over this antenna it breaks.

gerpea mending towerlittle gerpeas walkingFor each time the ball passes the antenna one Gerpea leaves its house to go and repair the antenna.

gerpeas returning homeYou must now hit the Gerpea with the ball and stop it from repairing the antenna, If a Gerpea manages to fix it and get back home you loose a ball.

Almost forgot, you must stop the antenna from working since the Gerpeas otherwise will manage to send a signal to their mothership and take over earth.

Apart from stopping the Gerpeas from repairing the antenna there is not much to do, you can try to hit the bumpers and score a little there, but that's all. The layout of the table is not the best but I guess you can't demand so much from a K&P pinball. The graphics aren't the nicest either.


- The feeling

Very poor feeling. The ball bounces around on the table fast, strange and uncontrollable. You can't hold the ball on the flippers since when you flip the flipper goes up and automatically down. This is a very sad thing since it means you can't slow down the balls speed, or hold the ball and aim a little. All you can do is flip when the ball approaches the flipper and hope it goes the right way. The ball usually goes everywhere after you have flipped...


- The whole

The pinball might sound fun to take home and try, well I guess there is no harm in doing that since the gerpeas after all are sort of cute. :) You will though soon notice there is not so much of interest in the pinball and get tiered of it.

I can't really say I recommend this pinball, but if you feel after reading the review you want to try it, don't say I didn't warn you.


system requirements

Platform: PC
Operating System: Windows 3.1 or above

Also available for: -


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