Forbidden Fruit

Crash

Use of Computer 70%

Graphics 75%

Playability 75%

Getting Started N/A

Addictive Qualities 67%

Value For Money 78%

Overall 73%

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Producer: Tansoft Memory Required: 48K Retail Price: £5.50 Language: Machine code Author: Thomas Derbyshire This is the first game for the Spectrum that Tansoft have produced, having been previously more concerned with the Oric computers. Forbidden Fruit is a simple idea in which you guide a character around several screens to collect a key for the screen exit and various flavours of forbidden fruit for bonus points. The screens consist of simple maze shapes filled with at least three nasties at any one moment, that parade about the playing area in pre-set patterns. At the top of the screen appears a graphic of the fruit you may collect next. On collecting it, the graphic changes to the next available fruit. To prevent you from being killed off, your character has a laser, but this only fires left and right, so timing is required to judge the right moment to use a vertical chanel. As you progress through the screens, the layouts become more tricky and the keys and fruit are placed more awkwardly. The copy we were given to look at was an early preproduction version, so the packaging with its all-important blurb was missing! Hence we have no vitally interesting storyline to give you about the game which is so often designed to tell you about the packaging but little about the game! COMMENTS Control keys: D/C up/down, O/M left/right, AJS fire left/right, Ito fire in movement direction Joystick: Kempston, AGF, Protek, Sinclair 2 Keyboard play: responsive, but a rather odd combination and fire is on the wrong side of the left/right keys Use of colour: very good and cheerful Graphics: good, clear and big with characterful animation Sound: below average Skill levels: 1 Lives: 3 Screens: unknown