English Software
48K cassette £9.95
48K disk £12.95
1 player
Joystick
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As the name implies, this is the
fourth in a series of compilation tapes from English Software. It
contains three of their most recent releases - CHOP SUEY, HIJACK
and KISSIN' KOUSINS - plus one other new one which I haven't come
across before, entitled FIRE CHIEF. The first three games have already
been reviewed in previous issues of Page 6, leaving only FIRE CHIEF
to be covered here.
This particular game covers two
completely different scenes and requires you, first of all, to drive
your Fire Chief Mobile along a busy four-laned motorway - dodging
traffic at high speed - to reach the offices of English Software
in time to thwart the dastardly Phantom Fire Bomber, who is trying
to destroy all the pre-release disk copies of Elektraglide. Here,
the driving screen gives way to a maze type screen as you fight
your way through the advancing flames to retrieve the disks from
the safe before they melt into oblivion. From then on the game gets
progressively more difficult with even more disks to save but less
and less time to do it in. Meanwhile, clues can be collected along
the way to help you guess the identity of the Phantom.
At the risk of offending all CHOP
SUEY fanatics out there, I have to say that FIRE CHIEF is my favourite
game of the four. Graphics and sounds are first-rate and, just for
a change, English Software have come up with a game which even I
can get to grips with!
Anyway, SMASH HITS No.4 is worth
the asking price for CHOP SUEY and FIRE CHIEF alone. Great value
for money.
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