Unofficial version of Hunchback
Appeared as a type-in program in Issue 17 of Your Spectrum magazine in August 1985, and also on that month's Digi-Tape, already typed up and ready to load on your machine.
As with the original, the player must take control of Quazzi and cross the screen along a wall, avoiding obstacles and traps, to reach and ring a bell at the other side, eventually reaching Quazzi's true love, Esmerelda.
Text Adventure that appeared as a type-in program in issue 17 of Your Spectrum magazine. It also appeared on that month's cover-mounted Digi-Tape, already typed up and ready to play.
The plot is that you have to help three members of the Your Spectrum team escape from the confines of Castle Rathbone, the mythical place where Your Spectrum magazine is created. There are four escape routes, one for each of the team members and one for you, and you can't use an escape route meant for one member for another. Commands are entered in the usual text adventure style, by entering them in via keyboard.
Imagine a French chimney sweep called Smudge....It's not easy, and neither is our hero's task!
He has to clean all the chimneys in the village of Le Crelle before he can go home. He has already been hampered on his way to work by drivers on the wrong side of the road, sudden obstacles and bouncing footballs projected into the street by ruffian school kids.
Once he has parked his bike in the lay-by, you've got to help him use his Jetpack to mount the roof and lower him into each stack. Only then do you discover that everything is not well. Strange airborne creatures - the "Moonees" - well known local pranksters, looking for fun, try to knock Smudge off the roof again and again.
But with all that Galic charm and some help from you he perseveres, and as the say in Paris "If at first you don't succeed, it's time to make a clean sweep". Therefore after each screen you must return to the local laundry and rest so that Smudge can regain his strength to tackle the next type of building, before finally achieving his ambi
Meet MacMan, the canny Scot who takes children on fun-packed maths adventures.
MacMan and the Caber Eater teaches addition and subtraction and shows some of the relationships between numbers. By adding and subtracting, children help MacMan to build up a caber, piece by piece, and then toss it. Easy? Not when the dreaded Caber Eater appears on the scene and tries to steal the pieces away!
The program has five levels of difficulty, a built-in assessment device, and a 'help' sequence for children having difficulty.
This software was devised by educationalists and has been tried and tested in schools and homes. The program was wrtitten by Intelligent Software, creators of high quality educational software for 4-8 year olds.
S.O.R.T. (also known as Space Observer Recruitment Test) is an educational memorization game for the ZX Spectrum.
"A vacancy exists on mission DBZ-R4 to the spiral galaxy. Person selected will fill the role of mission observer - no technical knowledge is required. Selection will be on the basis of standard sort-space observer recruitment test-procedures. Candidates for selection may practice each test individually but final selection will be made only from those completing the full sort sequence. Instructions precede practice tests. Good luck Candidates!!"
Blood 'n' Guts immerses puts the player inside the body of a hypochondriac, following the accidental enlargement of a submarine. The player's mission is to reassemble the submarine, which has broken into eight pieces scattered throughout the body, and escape through the eye.
The game is set in a mysterious pyramid filled with traps and guarded by various evil beings. Players must skillfully maneuver through different levels, avoiding threats and solving puzzles to progress. The pyramid's design is intricate, requiring players to think strategically to overcome obstacles and find the hidden treasures.