Grid Patrol

Crash

Use of Computer 60%

Graphics 55%

Playability 59%

Getting Started 56%

Addictive Qualities 61%

Value For Money 60%

Overall 59%

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Producer: MC Lothlorien Memory Required: 16K Retail Price: £5.95 Language: Machine code Author: Simon Cobb The cassette inlay wastes little space in setting up a scenario for this ultra-fast grid game beyond telling you to avoid the devastating fire from the tanks. Quite right too. The game takes the basic form of Transversion, but unlike that game instead of static pods to destroy there are a few aliens on the grid which keep moving about. Around all four edges of the grid there are tanks which can move up and down or left and right to fire inwards along the grid lines. This means that your man must constantly face fire from four different directions, with the tanks constantly homing into fire along the line he is on. He is equipped with a laser that fires in eight directions, with which he must destroy the wandering aliens on the grid. Bumping onto one will result in loss of life. Each screen cleared moves you on to a more difficult one with more aliens, and they move about more wildly. COMMENTS Control keys: Q/A up/down, O/P left/right, SYM SHIFT to fire (it does mention user-definable keys on the inlay but there don't seem to be any) Joystick: AGF, Protek, Kempston Keyboard play: responsive Use of colour: average Graphics: small, fast, generally reasonable Sound: good Skill levels: 3 speeds Lives: 5 Screens: 8

A totally manic game for real arcade freaks, and one of the best derivations of Transversion.

Personal Computer Games

Graphics 4/10

Sound 6/10

Originality 4/10

Lasting Interest 5/10

Overall 5/10

Steve Cooke 5/10

MACHINE: Spectrum 16/48K CONTROL: Keys, Cursor Joystick FROM: Lothlorien, £5.95 Superhuman reflexes are required as you dodge laser bolts and blast robots on a grid. Sometimes you're killed before you've even had a chance to move, or wonder why this game is so familiar. To find out, play Hewson Consultants' Di-Lithium Lift - reviewed elsewhere in this issue. Anyone getting a high score has my admiration.