Игра I, of the Mask by Spaceman Ltd ( Sandy White, Angela Sutherland, Paul Fik), 1985, Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48 K

It s been a long while since I ve done one of these but I was at Retro Revival yesterday and saw Ant Attack creator Sandy White talking about his games. Ant Attack and Zombie Zombie I d obviously heard of but his last game was new to me and it looked interesting enough to give it a go. Sandy didn t have much good to say about it himself but it has to be said the graphics are seriously impressive for a 1985 Spectrum game. The gameplay admittedly less so. The aim is to wander around a maze collecting parts to build a robot. The maze has junctions with 3 crystals one of which warps you to another bit of the maze, another to another junction and the other gives you a chance to collect whatever robot part is at that junction. The robot parts have to be collected in the right order and I only finished this with a load of old fashioned mapping on paper. Watching this will get old very quickly but I ve never let it put me off so far + the game wasn t even on Youtube before as far as I can tell. I definitely recommend