Wreckage

Big K

Graphics 1/3

Playability 1/3

Addictiveness 1/3

Overall 2/3

Fin Fahey 2/3

SPANISH TUMMY MAKER: Ventamatic FORMAT: cassette PRICE: £5.95 Wreckage is notable for one thing only, it comes from Spain. If it represents the state of Spectrum software in that long-suffering country, then I think we should all count ourselves lucky. If Ventamatic are going for U.K. sales, I really think they should get round to translating the game instructions. No matter, the game takes about one and a half seconds to figure out without them. It's a pretty humdrum Invaders shoot-'em-up with the only extra twist that you must set the range of your lasers correctly.Various saucers that look like jellyfish ply away at your ground installations. As far as I can make out there is a Kempston joystick option, but the keyboard is entirely adequate for the simple action required. If this means that Eurosoftware is going to reach the elevation standard of Europop, I'm moving to the States.

Crash

Use of Computer 58%

Graphics 70%

Playability 54%

Getting Started 60%

Addictive Qualities 54%

Value For Money 50%

Overall 58%

Unknown

Unknown

Producer: Unique Memory Required: 16K Retail Price: £5.99 Language: Machine code Author: Oscar Domingo Another Spanish Ventamatic game from Unique. You are in control of a laser base protecting a city from the ravages of alien flying saucers that resemble angry jellyfish. They are dropping bombs all over the place, blowing craters in the ground, smashing up the roads, blasting the houses to bits and crumbling the domes - an all this under a hot blue summer sky. Your laser base can be moved left and right for firing, while a vertical sight to the left of the screen affects the trajectory of the shot (which means they must be bullets or shells you're firing - don't lasers travel in straight fines)? The more aliens you shoot away, the more they appear. When your city is destroyed the ground radiates lethally and the game is finished. COMMENTS Control keys: Q/A up/down, O/P left/right and 0 to fire Joystick: Kempston Keyboard play: responsive but only single control, awkward fire position Use of colour: very good Graphics: neat and detailed with a limited 3D effect; everything except the alien craft moves very smoothly and fast, the aliens are rather jerky Sound: poor Skill levels: 1 Lives: 1

The doomed city from the Wreckage.