Pogostick Olympics

Crash

Presentation 20%

Graphics 30%

Playability 25%

Addictive Qualities 19%

Overall 20%

Kati Hamza 19%

Phil King 21%

Producer: Silverbird Retail Price: £1.99 Author: Probe Software Older readers may recall a strange craze that caught on a good few years ago which involved standing on a stick with a spring on the end and bouncing around. This ancient art was known as pogoing. Pogostick Olympics revives this weird pastime and elevates it from the pages of The Beano to the status of a sport. The game is divided into five events. Event number one has you bouncing along trying to pop floating balloons with a spiked helmet. Next is the 110m hurdles which is closely followed by the triple jump, target practice and an obstacle course. The player gets three attempts to qualify for each event before being eliminated from the contest. If all three events are successfully completed with a high enough score, the player has himself into the elite hall a fame. COMMENTS Joysticks: Kempston Graphics: simplistic sprites and samey backdrops for every event Sound: sparse spot effects

Who needs muscles when you've got a pogostick?

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Overall 5/10

Nat Pryce 5/10

BARGAIN BASEMENT And down in the Cheapies Emporium this wee (nothing over £3 considered), is Bristol's answer to Billy Idol, Nat Pryce! POGOSTICK OLYMPICS Silverbird £1.99 Reviewer: Nat Pryce There haven't been many joystick waggling games released for quite a while, but now Firebird has brought out Pogostick Olympics, and what a ridiculous game it is too. You control a bloke on a pogostick who wears a spiked helmet and must compete in five events, scoring as many points as possibile. Score zero points three times and you're out of the contest. The first event is balloon popping, where you use the spike on your helmet. Next is the 110 metre hurdles and then the triple jump where you must pop a balloon, jump over a bush and long-jump into the sand pit. After that is target practice where you fire champagne corks at bouncing balls and finally there's an obstacle course. The presentation of Pogostick Olympics is excellent, but the game itself is boring and unplayable. If you like waggling your joystick, you might like this, but I didn't find it that much fun.

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