Paratroopers

Sinclair User

Gilbert Factor 4/10

Memory: 48K Price: £5.99 Joystick: Protek A number of computer games are firmly grounded on the pleasures of zapping anything which moves and as long as the enemy is represented as Martians or monsters, nobody minds too much. Paratroopers, however, makes no attempt to disguise its warlike theme. The object is to prevent a swarm of paratroopers landing by firing your anti-aircraft gun at the helicopters from which they jump or at the paratroopers. If you allow three paratroopers to land either side of you, a tank will appear and blow you to smithereens. The graphics and explosive effects of Paratroopers are extremely effective but so much realism can be regarded as a disadvantage. The storyline also lacks variety, so that however much you like lining up things in your sights and firing - shooting at paratroopers becomes monotonous in the long run. Produced by Rabbit Software, Middlesex.

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Crash

Overall 62%

Producer: Rabbit, 16K £5.99 (2) Author: J F Cain In this game you are manning an anti-aircraft gun, while overhead clouds of helicopters are dropping paratroopers on you. The gun only traverses left and fight, but because of the clever cheat on perspective it gives a field of fire across the top two thirds of the screen. You must hit helicopters and paratroopers. These fall from their choppers sometimes with chute opening instantly, others delaying till the last second, and others never opening at all, to die splat on the ground. You will lose a life if a para lands on top of you, or when three have landed successfully and gone off to fetch a giant tank against which there is no defence. The graphics are good, amusing and smooth (gun works very well) and it's all fairly fast, but the general feeling was that there weren't enough objectives in the game to make it totally compelling and addictive. User-defined keys, only 1 skilll level, overall CRASH rating 62% m/c.

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Crash

Use of Computer 70%

Graphics 68%

Playability 66%

Getting Started 62%

Addictive Qualities 49%

Value For Money 55%

Overall 62%

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Producer: Rabbit Memory Required: 16K Retail Price: £5.99 Language: Machine code Author: J.F. Cain It gets awfully lonely sitting on your own in a bunker until the enemy decides to drop in! 'Your bunker' is in fact a field gun which you control, sitting in the bottom centre of the screen. Above you, in the sky, helicopters stream by in both directions, spewing paratroopers out on top of you. Their object is to get three men safely on the ground, at which point they stride off and return in a large tank against which you are defenceless (and dead!) and that's that. Your aim is to prevent them from landing any men and you score for paratroopers destroyed and helicopters knocked out. The game continues on after loss of life, resetting the score to zero, quite automatically. COMMENTS Control keys: user-defined for left/right/fire Joystick: Protek, AGF Keyboard play: responsive Colour reasonable average Graphics: good, well detailed Sound: below average Skill levels: it's main drawback - only 1 Lives: 1

The name of the game is good aim - Paratroopers.