Challenge

Sinclair User

NEW ZX-81 IDEAS Micromega, renowned for its business software on the ZX-81, has a cassette of machine code games for the little machine. Challenge, for the 1K ZX-81, presents some original and clever ideas. Two of our favourites are Cartoon Man and Juggler. In the first a little man walks across the screen. You can control his movement using the shift and BREAK keys and increase his speed using number keys. Juggler is almost the same but he juggles while moving. The idea is to keep the balls in the air. Road Race is a fast action racing game, a race between two cars on a map, starting in London. The cars are on separate roads but you can go on to your opponent's road during the game. If you cross on to the other car's road in London you cannot pass but if you change in Scotland he cannot pass you. Challenge contains five machine code games for the 1K ZX-81 and can be obtained from Micromega, [redacted]. It costs £4.95.