SOFTWARE REVIEW: “STARION“
This is a 3-D graphics program drawn with extreme precision very quickly and smoothly. The complex shapes can be spun, rotated; the effect is, to say the least, amazing.
You blast your way through space. Each time you blast the enemy ship, the cargo becomes a letter. This you collect until you make up an Anagram. Then you have to land on a planet & pick the different time zones in which you think the Anagram would best fit. This arcade style game is not just a plain ZAP-em game. In this one you also have to think and know your history for the different time zones. This is a very good and addictive program.
- Graphics 95%
- Addictiveness 90%
- Money value 92%
- Playability 93%
- Overall 92.5%
Available from GOODBYTE, 94 Leather Lane, London EC1, England, and The English Micro Connection, 15 Kilburn Ct, Newport, RI 02840.
SOFTWARE REVIEW: “SPACE SCAN”
(2068/Romswitch)
This is an educational type program. It will not produce the star maps but instead produces rather simple maps to explain the shape & position of any one of 15 constellations which can be viewed under the Option 1, which produces a slide show effect.
The maps are made to name the important stars & to demonstrate how they form patterns. After the constellation has been plotted you are asked if you require any further information.
Should the text refer to particular stars, they will flash to make their position known. Then follows a few interesting facts.
Option 3 gives access to a menu of 75 stars. Each one has a page showing which constellation it is in, the type of star it is and it’s distance from our Sun.
There is also a glossary section which explains some of the technical terms used in the descriptions. This is option 5.
Option 4 is a quiz to test your knowledge on constellations and stars. On the whole, this is a fine educational program and is well put together.
- Graphics 75%
- Addictiveness 65%
- Money value 85%
- Playability 80%
- Overall 76.25%
Available from Macmillan Software, Little Essex St., London Wc2r 31f, England and, The English Micro Connection, 15 Kilburn Ct, Newport, RI 02840.