If you had dreams to be a bird, this game will make them true. Here you are a Birdie in some sci-fi world filled with robots, carnivorous plants, parachutes, raptors, barbarians, lasers, butterflies, magical doors, hyperspace, etc. You should survive in this world with help of your wings and flying techniques.
The game is flown in third-person view, where you may control a bird moving him/her left or right, flying up or descending down, and flapping the wings. To fly correctly, the bird has to move in the air at a certain speed. Once the latter increases, the bird is handy. If bird's speed drops below a certain threshold, the bird then follows one of the oldest laws of the universe, gravity. Flapping wings enables bird to gain altitude and flying down on the wings increases speed.
The scoreboard on the screen tells you your speed (red = stall), altitude, the remaining time before the night, your life energy (no energy = game over). Flying at altitude for too long will attract predators, give no points, and exhaus
You must find with your spaceship the survivors of the Acorn commando who have left on a perilous mission on the planet Araquis. You will have to be on alert to avoid being captured by the Raquis, voracious creatures, who terrorize the entire population. To destroy them, you will have to use your Blaster beam.
La Chose de Grotemburg is a text adventure with graphics in French. The protagonist returns to his town after travelling to find his young wife dead. The search for the one responsible bring the character to different locations such a forest, an underground environment and a mansion where the one responsible resides.
Most of the screen provides a view of the environment with detailed graphics. At the bottom of the screen text descriptions appear and commands are entered. On the right possible movement options based on the four wind directions are displayed.
At the controls of your spaceship, skillfully dodge friendly ships which, after a tough battle against hordes of hostile aliens, return to base by taking the same access route as you.
Published as a listing in Compute Mit Magazine Issue 10/87
The Amstrad CPC version has different sounds, the UI elements are changed a bit and the game is in general displayed in black and white except for icon highlighting.
This little game came in a standalone cassette as a free game with the second issue of the Spanish magazine "Juegue Con Su Amstrad", which roughly translates to "Play With Your Amstrad".
This time around, it's a duel between two cowboys.
The player takes on the role of the father of a family that moves into the Amityville haunted house. Little by little, the house comes to life and he has to face more and more horrible events. He is a prisoner of the house and the goal is to get out alive after 24 days.