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3D MONSTER CHASE

PUBLISHER
Romik

AUTHOR
Unknown

YEAR
1983

CATEGORY
Arcade Adventure

DESCRIPTION
One of the first full colour 3D maze games to be available. Kind
of like Doom circa 1983! Find your way out of the maze while
avoiding or killing the nasties.

CONTROL
Predefined Keys (sorry, can't remember what...)
Selection of Joysticks

INSTRUCTIONS
Find your way out of the 3D maze to safety! Each maze consists
f a number of levels, interconnected by lifts (which require keys
to access). Each level contains some beasties, which will kill
you if you run into them. An overhead map provides you with a
view of where in the maze you are and where the nasties are, but
unfortunately doesn't show the maze itself or any of the goodies!
You given, however, a number of grenades which you can use to
dispatch any bad guys who get too close!

SEQUEL/PREQUELS
None.

SCORES RECEIVED
As far as I can tell, 3D Monster Chase was released before any
of the major Sinclair mags were around (apart from maybe Sinclair
User, but I don't recall that far back!). It was never
re-released, so only the oldest of Speccy users will remember it.

URL
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GENERAL FACTS
A pretty nifty (if slow) game for the time. The walls are solid
and nicely coloured, and the beasties really do surprise you when
they pop up from nowhere! The only real problem is the lack of
a map - it wouldn't have been too hard to have a map build up as
you went along, I'm sure! Then again, maybe it would've been too
easy then!  The game is actually very similar to the game which
featured on BBC Television's "The Adventure Game" at some point
(the one involving the DOGRAN, which you had to guide through a
maze to get something and bring it back to you....), although I
think that was running on a BEEB rather than a Speccy.
Although I've never played it, numerous people have commented
upon this game's similarity to 3D Monster Maze on the ZX-81.


NOTES
Not a bad little game, well worth a blast every now and then.
Just be sure to let those grenades off before the beasties get
too close!