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The aim of this GACced game, I think (I can hardly
believe the inlay, but this is what it says), is to
find out how many stars there are in the universe. When
you load up, you find in the first location a computer,
a monitor and a floppy disk. Inserting the disk boots
the system into life, and if you examine the screen
you find -- hey presto! -- a menu of game options.
If
I tell you that the games on offer are:
2002
-- A Very Odd Day in Space
Panic Miner
The Lords of Half Past Nine
Raid over Margate
...
then you may get some idea as to what's going on! You
must enter each game in turn by selecting it from the
menu and then either dodge killer sprites (in 'Panic
Miner', of course), or else giggle at the rather unkind
take-offs of the famous Level 9 graphics in 'The Lords
of Half Past Nine'. The trouble is, they really do look
EXACTLY like Level 9 graphics!
[this screenshot was not in the original
review]
Each
game has something very different to offer and the puzzles
are really quite tricky, involving much entering and
quitting of games as you rush hither and thither collecting
various items to overcome the obstacles that present
themselves in each scenario.
I
enjoyed this game, especially as I had the secure feeling
that it would only have cost me £1.99, but I did think
that there was perhaps a little TOO much variety in
it. Sometimes I think games suffer if they try to include
too much material at the expense of some form of unity
-- but this is very much a personal view and others
may feel exactly the opposite. After all, there is something
rather satisfying about solving one puzzle with an object
brought in from another game, even if you do have to
do a lot of scurrying to-ing and fro-ing. Anyway, at
this price you can't lose!
[this screenshot was not in the original
review]
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