The title may give you a
little clue to what this one's
about. Any idea? Yep - you
guessed it - surprisingly
enough it's yet another question and answer
game. Ooooooh!
Rather than being based on some highly
intellectual board game, such as
Trivial Pursuit, this
one's based on those trivia games that you find in
pubs. Y'know - the ones where you have to pick the
correct answer, usually from a choice of three, to a
completely irrelevant question in a time limit of
about ten seconds.
But now a Speccy version, eh? Hmmm. The basic
idea's the same - pick the correct answers to lots of
questions within a time limit. Accidentally get the
answer correct and you'll complete a square on the
score table - complete 21 squares and you're
awarded an extra life. You have two lives to start
with, so you can effectively answer two questions
incorrectly before your game is over. And that's it
really. There's nothing else - you just try to score as
much as possible per game.
I'm not really a big trivia man myself, but I
managed to play quite contentedly with this for
about the first half hour or so (it's a single player
game). I was quite impressed that the questions
were not repeated all over the place, but suddenly
the thing seemed to run out of inspiration and that
was it until I flipped the tape over for a different set
of questions. Unfortunately, the memory of the
Speccy limits the amount of questions. But all is not
lost because the multiple choice answers are given
to you in a random order.
The graphics are adequate, but the sound is crap
- no tunes or anything. In spite of this, though, it's a
reasonably good triv game if you like that sort of
thing, but there are lots of alternatives I could think
of. I mean, I've got piles (ahem).
(What is this boy
on?! Ed) And whether or not you're going to feel like
answering lots of boring questions after completing
stacks of homework is up to you.