Previously on Let’s Play (insert 5 minute unnecessary recap here), I wrote about the great Centipede clone Spectipede. The copy I had on cassette was actually just one half of a double pack, the other being another arcade game clone re-released by Mastertronic – Gnasher.
Not so long ago, I said it was a terrible game, but you know something? I take that back. It’s nowhere near as bad as I remember, and I actually really like the big chunky graphics. Certainly, it’s a poor clone of Pac-Man, not least because of the relatively tiny maze and how the small space makes collecting the dots in the area above the ghostbase really, really difficult, but it has its own charm.
I’m put in mind of the Atari 2600 official Pac-Man port, which is visually quite similar but is awful to play. Perhaps I was mixing these two games up in my head.
You can make your own mind up, when you play it yourself! What the hell do you mean you don’t know how?! It’s Pac-Man!
Right, fine. Since you’re the only person ever to have not played it: You’re the pizza and you have to eat all the dots while avoiding the ghosts. Eat the flashing dots in the corners, and for a limited time the ghosts turn INK 1 (that’s blue to you) and you can eat them. Their souls then scurry back to the base in the middle, where they’re reborn. Oh, and the tunnel on the left links to the tunnel on the right, and vice versa. It’s really very simple.
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Controls: You can redefine your own. “Hold”, in case you’re wondering, is what us old people sometimes said before the word “pause” was invented.
The emulator used is Qaop/JS – a rather spiffy HTML5 Spectrum emulator.
