When you bought a Spectrum+ computer, there was a magic little tape in the box called the User Guide Companion Cassette. The A side of this tape had some boring instructions and stuff on it, but the B side had GAMES.
Well, two games. One of them was a Breakout clone (albeit horizontal rather than vertical), and the other was Maze Chase – a Painter game written by Speccy game hero Pete Cooke.
Using the new (for the Spectrum+) cursor keys, you move your man around the maze filling all the paths in. If the path encircles a complete “block”, it colours it in. Fill them all in, and you move onto the next level. Easy! Oh, except for the nasties that try to kill you.
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The emulator used is Qaop/JS – a rather spiffy HTML5 Spectrum emulator.
I had totally forgotten about that until now. And I’m not sure I ever quite twigged that it was by that Pete Cooke, master of the unassuming gem.
I didn’t realise it was him either!