#atlantis software

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At the big VGJunk site today: it’s another princess rescue mission, folks, but this one’s got evil dressing gowns, hidden cauldrons and key cutting: it’s Heartbroken on the ZX Spectrum, and you can read all about it here!

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Trying to put out cigaretes with a wantering can while the devil gets in the way: that’s Nicotine Nightmare for the ZX Spectrum

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At the big VGJunk site today: the menace of smoking is eradicated in the 1985 ZX Spectrum game Nicotine Nightmare! The devil gets involved and no-one has any arms. It’s kinda weird, and you can read all about it here!

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Sinbad

Published 1983 by Atlantis Software Ltd. | Author: Andy Backhouse | [WOS]

“The slightest mistake will result in a very painful death.”

Sinbad is a dungeon crawl that casts the player as the thrill-seeking sailor of Middle-Eastern legend. Here, in an adventure that seemingly pre-dates the canonical seven voyages, our hero has rather foolishly left his crew behind to recover his father’s wealth from a labyrinthine cave.

The aim is to navigate the cave, find the treasure chest and get out again with any additional loot adding to your score. You have a first person view of the action as you move though the boxy wireframe maze, one square at a time in a manner similar to much later crawlers like Dungeon Master and the recent Grimrock series. The walls are lined with doors behind which you may find the treasure, some other valuable, a clue, or a fearsome enemy – either a ‘trog’ warrior or a giant soldier ant. The only other hazards are rockfalls and bottomless pits that can be overcome with equipment found during your search.

Combat is dead simple: you have a few precious seconds to type a letter based on the one displayed on the ant’s head or trog’s shield. On the lowest level you just have to hit the same key, on the highest you must find the letter four places after in the alphabet. Get it wrong and it’s death on the end of a trog’s sword, or the ants escape and seek their queen – who then starts seeking you. From this point, the game takes on an atmosphere of dread familiar to anyone who played 3D monster maze.

In fact, there’s an overall sense of creepiness that makes this game, simple as it is with fairly rudimentary graphics, surprisingly compelling. As you move around the maze in silence, the sudden interruption from a rockfall or the minor rumble that precedes an ant attack can bring on the heebie-jeebies. Just as effective is the pause (likely due to processor speed rather than design) when you open a door: will it be the treasure at last, or will the screen flash wildly while a klaxon sounds yet another battle to the death? It’s good fun finding out.

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At the big VGJunk site today: Hobgoblin! It's a ZX Spectrum action-platformer with a spooky flavour and a name you will never forget once you've played the bloody thing, trust me. It's also got freaky frog-men, (not divers,) my paranoia about final bosses and a hero who really isn't one for grand adventures. You can read all about it here!

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The Last Vampire, ZX Spectrum.