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Fireman Sam
(Alternative, 1992) Fireman Sam and his crew have to go round the streets of town and get to the scene of emergencies quickly. Among the many tasks that Sam is asked to complete are fires (of course), getting objects off a roof, and freeing kids who have got their heads stuck in the railings. However, most of Sam's time seems to be spent looking for lost objects. I'm sure the fire service have better things to do than that! If you don't complete a task properly, you'll receive a warning letter; if Sam gets three of these, he's sacked. The game is obviously aimed at children - after all, it is based on a TV cartoon series - and the colourful graphics will appeal to them. For more mature players, though, that's not enough. 5 |
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A large fire has started inside a huge skyscraper. Soon, it is completely ablaze and has spread to neighbouring skyscrapers. The city requires a daring hero to climb the walls of the skyscrapers and rescue the people inside; that's you, naturally. Starting at the bottom, you must work your way to the top and put out any fires that block your way and avoid the falling objects. In fact, you don't have to rescue all the people (that's not very nice at all!); your main aim is to reach the top, where a damsel in distress is waiting for you. However, the graphics show that the game is obviously a Spectrum port, and unless you keep moving quickly, you will become frustrated at the difficulty of the gameplay. 5 |
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1st Division Manager
(Codemasters, 1992) Although it's a Codemasters release, the person who wrote this also wrote several football management games for Cult, and you know what they're like! This isn't one of the better games, though. It has a graphical menu screen representing your office, where you click on objects on the screen to do things, but the graphics are poor, and the match highlights look awful as well. The worst bit, though, is that most matches end 0-0; in fact, I had to replay an FA Cup match six times because of this! You can train your players in certain areas, but this seems to be of little use, and it's very hard to get yourself promoted given that winning games is so elusive. 4 |
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First Past the Post
(Cult, 1991) There are a few horse racing games for the CPC, but in this game, you actually manage your own horses and enter them for race meetings, as well as betting on other horses and competing with three other trainers. You can enter up to two horses in each race, and study their recent form before you do so. Watching the race itself is relatively amusing as you watch the eight cartoon horses gallop to the finish. However, the graphics are rather poor, and if you're not a fan of horse racing (like me), it's likely that you won't find this game interesting. 5 |
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Five-a-Side Footy
(Silverbird, 1988) If you want to put some digitised speech into your game, at least make sure it's recognisable. As well as being possibly the easiest football game I've ever played (I won my first game against the computer 8-0 and the second 16-0 - and that was in the six-minute game!), it also has the worst digitised speech I've ever heard in any game. You can just about make out the words "Goal! G-g-goal!," but try listening to the attempts at saying "kickoff" and "half time". Thrashing the computer is fun for a while, but soon becomes boring. Playing against a friend might be more fun, but it's a pretty mediocre game, anyway - passing to other players is impossible. The sound of the crowd is good, though. 4 |
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Five a Side Soccer
(Mastertronic, 1986) Oh, no! Don't talk to me about this one! This is a pitifully poor football game which is simply far too easy. It's not just the graphics, which look like a five-year-old drew them and which feature colour clash; nor the awful sound effects which pass for the crowd cheering and the ball being kicked; it's that the opposition are easy meat, and in some instances you can walk straight through them and into the goalmouth without any bother. The animation is dire as well. Avoid this game! 1 |
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The Earth has been invaded by aliens and you must clear it! You’re a kind of bionic soldier who can transform at will into a jeep, a tank or a helicopter (!). Well, there isn’t much more to tell you about this game. The graphics are dull, the action is boring and the sound is awful. All you can do is try to stay awake as long as possible. I hate those games that haven’t got an ending; when all the aliens have been killed, the colours change and... it's back to the beginning! 4 |
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Flimbo's Quest
(System 3, 1990) Professor Franz Dandruff has kidnapped Pearly the princess from Dewdropland, and Flimbo must rescue her. There are seven levels to complete, and on each one, you must collect a number of scrolls by shooting the Professor's Genetically Undesirable Mutants (GUMs). There is a picture at the bottom of the status screen which shows you what type of GUM to look out for - the mutant to shoot flashes to let you know that it has the next scroll. Some GUMs leave money behind them, which you can use to buy some power-ups at Dazz Bazian's shop. The game has 'cute' written all over it, with colourful and cheerful graphics and fairly simple gameplay. However, every level consists almost solely of shooting random monsters repeatedly, which is not enthralling at all. 6 |
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Flippit
(Splash, 1988) It's time to use the grey matter, to solve 105 brain-busting puzzles. Each puzzle consists of a pattern on a square grid, and you have to click on certain squares to produce the pattern shown at the bottom right of the screen. Clicking on squares changes the state of other squares in the grid, but you will need to experiment to find out exactly which squares are affected when you click on a particular square. The first few levels are easy, as one might expect, but it quickly becomes more difficult. Thankfully, you can start on any level. The graphics are unspectacular and the game is written in BASIC, but most puzzle game fans should like it. For the rest of us, it's not really a game that will keep you enthralled for long. 6 |
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Fluff
(Radical, 1994) Fluff is the CPC's answer to Sonic the Hedgehog - so said Amstrad Action, and the similarities are there. Fluff has to rescue her four children on each level, negotiating platforms and lifts and avoiding insects, weeds and nasty pits of slime. This is one of the very few games that makes maximum use of the Plus' facilities, and it was also one of the last commercial games to be released for the CPC range. The graphics are nothing less than stunning and there's a cool tune as well. It's also an excellent game, although the scrolling is a bit jerky. 8 |
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