Yes, the metal glove that reduced many
a games player into a shivering
sleepless wreck. This is one of the only
coin-op conversions that ever really
captured the addictive essence of the
original and was the big Christmas hit
in '86. I was enchanted by this one for
months.
If you don't know already the idea is
to direct your beefy medieval hero (or
heroine) on a quest through billions of
multi-load levels, fighting off hordes of
ghosts, ogres and grim reapers,
collecting potions, treasure and extra
weaponry, sifting through caverns,
mazes and bonus screens, blasting,
exploding, pulverising, shooting...
aarrghhh! It's brilliant! The creatures
are fairly brainless, churning about,
chasing you. They're fairly easy to
dispatch as well, a couple of well-timed axes down their ectoplasmic
gullets usually does the biz. You race
towards the exits but doors block off
sections of the maze, so keys must be
collected to open them. The mazes
become progressively more complex
and progressively more populated with
nasty cultures. You collect extra
weapons and deal death in a fun way.
The graphics are a little simplistic,
the colours a little garish and the multi-load a bit tedious, but all these niggles
are swiftly forgotten when you
experience the pleasure of
simultaneous two player action.
Playing with a friend (at the computer, I
hasten to add) lends another
dimension to the game. You can be
savagely nefarious and leave your
partner to the Reaper's mercy, be
savagely sadistic and shoot him
'accidently' or even be savagely co-operative - either way it's bags of fun
and well worth the money.
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