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£19.95
SkullDiggery is basically a version of the old
classic `Boulderdash' and it isn't exactly the greatest game ever to
be released for the ST. In SkullDiggery you take the part of a
'bouncy cave mite' who has an appetite for treasure. You must run
around the one hundred caves eating the treasure and avoiding the
tumbling skulls, the crazy ghosts and the vicious bats.
The graphics are not very good at all. For a start they are medium
resolution, giving only four colours and the gain in resolution does
not make up for the lack of colour because Skulldiggery looks more
like a Spectrum game than an ST game! The graphics are boring and
dull, and the scrolling is the worst I have ever seen. It is worse,
in fact than the scrolling on Gauntlet (and that was awful). The
sound is NOT brilliant during the actual playing of the game,
however, when you finish a level and pass through the door to.the
next level there is a sampled effect of a large door creaking open.
On the high score table there is also a sampled sound. I think it's
supposed to be a short burst of an electric guitar, but again it is
not very good, and it appears to have been put in as an
afterthought.
Other annoying little 'features' include the protection which causes
the disk drive to spin continuously and becomes very irritating. The
only saving grace of the game would appear to be the simultaneous
two player option where both players race around either helping or
hindering each other getting the treasure. This does not make up,
however, for the poor quality of the game. For what it is I think
that `SkullDiggery' is horrendously overpriced and I would steer
clear of it..
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