After the War

Wandering along claustrophobic corridors with giant gun on hip, taking pot shots at the trillions of robots and security droids that gang up on you from above... well, it's got much of the feel and atmosphere of that space film Aliens. (What a pity the Speccy conversion of that was so hopeless!) Yup, real gung ho macho excitement (if you like that sort of thing). For mindless blasting satisfaction it takes some beating. There's one major fly in the ointment though - the difficulty level (it is a Dinamic game, after all). It's just pitched way to hard. Not quite as bad as Navy Moves perhaps, but you still get zapped straight back to the beginning again far too often. How blooming frustrating! Maybe I'm just going soft, but the fact I wasn't getting anywhere fast really put me off. Don't start raiding your piggy hank.

Nuclear apocalypse has happened - the ultimate catastrophe - but the streets of Manhattan are still filled with Muggers. Jonathan 'Jungle' Rogers is in the thick of it; his aim is simply survival. Located at the headquarters of the murderous Prof McJerin there is a XV-238 launching platform. Using this, JR can escape to the outer colonies!

Post-apocalypse New York, humans reduced to mutants, and plenty of blood-spattering action - it sounds like just my sort of game! But sadly Dinamic have forgotten to fully work out the gameplay. The first level of the C64 game is particularly dull, and level two isn't much better - despite some robot guns.