REVIEWS: “Deathchase” & “Frogger“
PROGRAM NAME: Deathchase
AUTHOR: M. J. Estcourt
TYPE: Entertainment (Arcade Game)
MACHINE: 2068
PRICE: $19.95
PROGRAM NAME: Frogger
TYPE: Entertainment (Arcade Game)
MACHINE: 2068
PRICE: $19.95
BOTH AVAILABLE FROM: GAMES TO LEARN BY
P.O. Box 78
28 Clair Hill Road
Collinsville, CT 06022
(203)673-7089
Most of the writing I do for this magazine concerns the more serious aspects of the use of T/S: Telecommunications, Business Programs, Utilities, etc. I feel that both T/S computers can do ANYTHING and IBM or Apple can do, and for a lot less investment.
But, I finally will come out of the closet. I LOVE GAMES!!! There…I said it…and I feel much better, thank you.
I love playing games as much as the next guy. And thanks to a dealer, appropriately “GAMES TO LEARN BY“, there are some fantastic ones available for the 2068, the T/S much better equipped for this genre of software.
With the H/R graphic and sound capabilities, I knew that games would be interesting programs on the 2068. But I had no idea that they would be THIS INTERESTING!!!
The first game I will tell you about is called DEATHCHASE. GAMES has exclusive distributorship of this program from Micromega in England. The 3-D graphics are nothing short of First-class, and the concept of the program is very intriguing. In fact, I played this game one afternoon for 3 hours straight!
Imagine you are sitting on a 26th century motorcycle. You are in the forest, patroling for enemy cycles. Once you have them in range, you can fire deadly photon bolts to destroy them. Once you clear the sector, you are moved to night shift (some reward…midnights!).
You continue moving from day to night. The farthest I have been able to attain is 4 sectors out of 8. Don’t worry, I’ll keep trying!
DEATHCHASE rates a 10 in my book!
The other game I reviewed is one that should be very familiar to all of you…FROGGER. There has been a version done of this game for every computer from the IBM to the TRS-80 Pocket Computer. I guess that’s because FROGGER is the best selling Video Game in the history of the business! Again, GAMES has exclusive rights to the 2068 version, along with many other Timex titles, in the U.S. This version is the original version, by Sega and Cornsoft.
Compared to the other versions of FROGGER I have played, short of the actual Arcade version, I feel this version for the 2068 tops the list! Every nuance is there, from the crocidles and otters, to the music! The top score is kept, and each screen gets increasingly harder. I heartily recommend FROGGER.