| ADVENTURE INTERNATIONAL |
48K DISK |
| 1/2 PLAYERS |
Brilliant! A totally original arcade style game which combines the
simplicity of noughts and crosses with nine different arcade games. A
winner all the way.
The overriding objective of the game is simple noughts and
crosses-nothing more but to get your cross in the box you have to play
a complete arcade game chosen from one of the nine available. Get
killed and a nought goes in the box instead. Three noughts and you
lose. Three crosses and you go on to the next level. What makes Triad
so good however are the superb graphics of each game and the fact that
it is not just a shoot-em-up game, for you have to think about each
game at each level to figure out just how you kill off the nasties.
Let's take you through a game. You start with a noughts and crosses
board with a 'nasty' in each of the squares. As you press the trigger
these are scrambled to give you a random playboard and you choose
where to put your cross by moving a large window cursor with the
joystick. Press the trigger again and you are into the game you have
chosen. As I said earlier, there are nine games and they are all
different. Happy/sad faces, bug-eyed monsters, butterflies, chess
pieces, spiders, arrows, hornets, flying saucers and bats are your
adversaries. Each one requires a different technique. As you progress
through the levels - by winning at noughts and crosses the screen gets
more and more crowded and the action faster - The graphics stay superb
throughout.
There are one or two player options and you can use joysticks,
paddles or keys. The review copy was hot off the press and I did not
get an instruction booklet so there may be even more in there. I
couldn't figure out how you get the two player option but the
Adventure International catalogue says it's there. Triad should be
available by the time you read this and if you have 48K and Disk get a
look, it really is a unique game. If someone could pack Triad into 16K
on cassette then I am sure it would be the number one seller for some
time, but I fear it can't be done. Definitely one to make the upgrade
and disk drive worthwhile though.
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