Pete n' Barry

Crash

Use of Computer 65%

Graphics 73%

Playability 55%

Getting Started 53%

Addictive Qualities 45%

Value For Money 55%

Overall 58%

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Producer: Impact Memory Required: 48K Retail Price: £6.90 Language: Machine code For the older joystick riders among you the name Impact may ring a bell or two, CRASH technical supreme Franco Frey claims he used to play Impact games when he was young - they must have been written for Babbage's Difference Engine. This is a new company and Pete N' Barry is their first program. The object of the game is to rescue a journalist from an asylum (I knew someone would write a game about us sooner or later). The player is cast in the role of PC Plod, who must enter the maze of rooms in order to find the bits of the doll. The doll? Ah well you will need the doll, complete, to exchange for the reporter, you will also need to find the video cassette. The five parts of the doll will be spread around the numerous rooms within the institution but within each room you will find thingies contact with which will cause the policeman to lose 'bottle' for energy). The energy can be replenished if you come across either a riot helmet or a Doc Martin boot. Your only defence against the nasties is to try and keep them of you by repeatedly hitting them with your truncheon, for this you will score points. The collected parts of the doll are shown within a frame at the side of the screen, should you manage to find the cassette then you will be able to proceed through a room to the dungeon, but enter that room without the cassette and you will die, sorry but that's the way it is. In the dungeon you will have to succeed in the 'final confrontation' before you can leave with the reporter. COMMENTS Control keys: CAPS/Z left/right, L/SYM SHIFT up/down, P/ENTER pick up/fire Joystick: Kempston only Keyboard play: well organised and responsive Use of colour: good Graphics: good looking but slow Sound: none Skill levels: 1 Lives: 3 Screen: 100 rooms