Gobstopper

Crash

Use of Computer 52%

Graphics 68%

Playability 70%

Getting Started 68%

Addictive Qualities 67%

Value For Money 69%

Overall 66%

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Producer: Calisto Memory Required: 48K Retail Price: £5.95 Language: Machine code Author: Andrew Taylor Meet a new hero - Spodgo, who resembles a cross between a green snowflake and a Splat. Spodgo has three different screens to survive in this very original arcade game. In the first, you must shoot up the blue coloured gobstoppers, whilst avoiding the uncommonly intelligent mutant toffees and a purple snake. Spodgo fires in the direction of movement, a sort of unbent paper clip, which kills the gobstoppers. The toffees cannot be destroyed, and all four gang up to chase you round the screen. Surviving this stage moves Spodgo on to a screen across which three trains move from left to right, one above the other, the middle one being the shorter but faster. A blue path zig zags down the screen blocked by opening and closing gates. The object is to guide Spodgo from the top right to the bottom right of the screen, avoiding the gates, and dodging across the railway tracks between trains. The third screen Sam the demented ice-cream salesman hurls endless supplies of ice-cream cones across the grass at you, and they must be dodged. COMMENTS Control keys: cursors and 6 to fire Joystick: Kempston, Protek, AGF Keyboard play: responsive, pity about the cursors though Use of colour: good Graphics: very good but a bit jerky Sound: excellent Skill levels: 1 Lives: 3 Screens: 3

Second screen of Gobstopper - dodge the Starlgiht Express.

You won't have time to get toothache with this game, besides which - the mutant toffees are real mean.

Personal Computer Games

Graphics 8/10

Sound 7/10

Ease Of Use 6/10

Originality 6/10

Lasting Interest 6/10

Overall 7/10

Steve Cooke 7/10

MACHINE: Spectrum 48K JOYSTICK: Optional CATEGORY: Arcade SUPPLIER: Calisto PRICE: £5.95 Gobstopper is a compulsive game with excellent graphics and sound. There are three screens to survive as you help a small graphics shape by the name of Spodgo to demolish gobstoppers, avoid trains, and dodge lethal ice-cream cones. Unfortunately you have to control him using the Spectrum cursor keys, but as the game progresses he becomes quite nimble. To begin with Spodgo finds himself on the screen surrounded by gobstoppers and killer toffees. In this game the sweets aren't just bad for your teeth, they're fatal. You have to despatch the gobstoppers with your gob-blaster by pressing the 0 key and avoid the toffees. An occasional snake wiggles across the screen, robbing you of one of your three lives if you happen to be in its way. Once you've polished off all the gobstoppers, it's on to the next screen, where you have to manoeuvre Spodgo down the screen along narrow pathways, avoiding trains and randomly placed barriers. Once you reach the bottom, you enter the next screen, where you have to dodge falling ice-cream cones. Your only objective in this screen is to stay alive for a predetermined amount of time. You then find yourself back at the beginning of the game. Although the first screen makes the rest of the game seem a little tame by comparison, Gobstopper should keep you happy between meals.