Pacland Good old Pacman, Inky, Blinky,Pinky and
Clyde are back in a new adventure. Pacman has to help lost Fairies back
to Fairyland and then return home to his family after receiving gifts
from the Fairy queen, obviously for a job well done. Pac has the usual
fruit to collect and power pills to eat, push twice in the direction
you move and you speed up and jump higher, meanwhile Pac's adversaries
are chasing him in cars, aeroplane's, pogo-sticks, and what not.
Meanwhile Pac has to jump rivers, using a spring board, and a lot of
wiggling.
Due to limitations of the machine,
according to the instructions, the Spectrum version doesn't have a
Fairyland sequence. The Spectrum also doesn't have sound, color and
scrolling. The Spectrum game only resembles the original in theme and
basic gameplay, thereafter not a lot of commonality exists.I can sort
of handle that the game doesn't scroll, what is however unforgiveable
is that you can not progress from one screen to the other due to
unseen objects on the next screen. This forces you to always jump to
the next screen due to not knowling what lies ahead, I guess you have
to learn.
This is a simple and nicely little
game on the Commodore, it includes a jolly little tune or two. The
original arcade game was circa 1984, back then the arcade machines
resembled the home machines. The Spectrum however can not recreate this
simple game.
