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GYRUSS
Parker Brothers, £24.95 cartridge, joystick only
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This
classic, albeit expensive, arcade conversion is a superb
implementation of the video game original.
It's
a fast and furious 3D shoot-em-up as you battle your
way back through our solar system to reach Earth. You
move round the edge of the screen in a 360-degree arc.
Aliens stream out of the centre of the screen and at
later levels spiral in from the edges.
Blast
them all to progress to a higher wave, each wave getting
more and more difficult. After every few waves you have
a chance stage to boost your score. Destroy as many
of the non-firing aliens as possible and get a special
10,000 bonus.
As
you get further into the solar system, past Jupiter
and Saturn, things start really heating up with a myriad
of aliens swirling about, dropping bombs and generally
making a nuisance of themselves.
The
graphics are faithful to the original and the sound
is a superb rendition of Bach's Toccata and Fugue. There
are also all the correct explosive noises and zooooms
as the aliens go over.
-----Rignall
ratings-----
Graphics 81%
Sound 96%
Arcade Feel 90%
Accuracy 92%
JR
highscore: 1,328,550
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