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GUARDIAN
Alligata, £7.95 cass, joystick and keys
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One
of the best known and most perplexing arcade games,
Williams' Defender, is cloned in what must be
the best version on any micro.
Guardian
puts you on a barren two-way scrolling landscape. You
have to protect eight humanoids from the six marauding
weird and aggressive aliens. Using the scanner, a miniature
radar scan of the planet, seek and destroy the hostiles.
If you're careless enough to let all your humanoids
be stolen, then your planet explodes leaving you in
hyperspace to battle it out with all the aliens and
the very dangerous mutants.
The
graphics and sound are totally faithful to the original
machine, down to the last pixel. It even contains some
of the bugs! You should only play with keys -- this
gives incredibly realistic 'arcade feel' -- even if
the novices say it's better to play with a joystick.
-----Rignall
ratings-----
Graphics 79%
Sound 47%
Arcade Feel 96%
Accuracy 98%
JR
highscore: 795,000
ZZAP!
rating: 88% (as
per August 1985 readers top 30)
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