Wow," I thought when
the Ed handed me this pack-
age,
Super G-Man! Tommy
guns, Edward G Robinson, but
nooo, this little item has
nothing whatsoever to do with
J Edgar Hoover and his boys
-- this one's all about a funny
little guy in a spacesuit zipping
around a planetary surface,
zapping ugly aliens with his
laser and squatting on fuel
tanks every so often.
Okay, what's this one got in
it? Well, there's a jet pack
strapped on the back of this
little guy in a spacesuit, and
he's got a laser as well. He has
to get through lots of different
scrolling screens while
avoiding the space mines and
any sharp outcroppings of rock
which might puncture his suit.
Coming after him are these
little weeblie aliens which buzz
about and which he has to zap,
and then there's the teleport
booths which can zip him from
A to B or sometimes even as
far as C, and every so often
there are fuel or ammo caches
which he can pick up, and
that's sort of it.
There is a plot, but it's so
simplistic it's largely irrelevant.
What you have to do is the only
thing that matters, and why you
have to do it you can work on
later.
What it boils down to is a
cross between
Scramble and
Jet Pac, with a touch of
Lunar
Lander thrown in for free.
It's slow, it's graphically
uninteresting, it's old
fashioned, but what the heck,
it's also addictive - mildly. It's
one of those games you keep
on saying you'll stop after this
go, but, somehow, you never
quite get around to switching it
off and loading up something
else.
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