Terry's Travels

Personal Computer Games

Graphics 5/10

Sound 7/10

Originality 4/10

Lasting Interest 3/10

Overall 4/10

Steve Cooke 4/10

MACHINE: Spectrum 48K CONTROL: Keys FROM: Algray Software, £5.50 You must move Terry Turtle up the screen, across busy roads, log-jammed rivers, and through mazes to get him home. You can define your own movement keys, a facility that always makes a game just that little bit more playable. Another nice touch is the sound - Algray have managed to cram some speech synthesis routines into the program. Every time you lose one of your five lives your Spectrum passes comment - usually inappropriately. Get run over and it shouts 'Roadhog!'. Fall in the river and it also shouts 'Roadhog!'. Hmmm... full marks for effort but this effect remains a curiosity and doesn't add much to the game. The first stages of the game are really just a watered down version of Frogger. Getting Terry across the roads is difficult enough, but the rivers are almost impossible. After a while the inappropriate comments and repetitive sound get on your nerves. If you've enough patience and endurance you then have to navigate a maze before Terry finally makes it home. It'll take a lot of practice before you get that far and I suspect that by the time you succeed you'll be wishing you'd spent your money on something else. The graphics aren't particularly exciting. There's a high score table that only accepts names of four letters, and every time you get a high score the machine sputters out the words 'Great Score!'. I scored 0 the first time round and was still congratulated and asked to enter my name. Despite the effort that has obviously gone into this program, I don't think I'd travel far to add it to my collection.