House of Gnomes

C&VG (Computer & Video Games)

GNOME FOR GNOME In the House of Gnomes are rooms containing dangers which Superman would be loathe to tackle. You have to wander round the rooms of the house picking up objects on your way. When you have collected them all without corning to any harm you emerge as the winner, beating the computer. But hazards abound in the House of Gnomes to prevent you from winning. The gnomes themselves are evil creatures and are waiting to taunt and challenge you. A snap decision is needed to accept the challenge and defend yourself, or to try and bribe them. This game comes from Bug Byte of Liverpool and runs on the 16K Sinclair ZX-81. It costs £1. Soon to be released from the same firm are a series of cartridges for the ZX-81 which plug into the machine. They are full K eproms which means that if you only have 1K memory the cartridges will upgrade the memory space giving you a much better game. Games on the way are Breakout, Pinball, Invaders and a 3D maze game. The cost of these has not yet been decided but is expected to be £13 or £14.