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What
a challenge! A totally automatic, high value banknote printers just waiting
to be robbed. But what about the robot guards, booby traps, security passes
and combination lock? - No problem for a burglar of your skill and daring
- or is it?
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REVIEW
by AtariGrub
Hmm,
the smell…the feel of freshly printed money! What could be more appealing
(to a criminal) than a banknote printing factory with a safe full of banknotes,
straight off the printing press? How can I get hold of this money a potential
burglar may ask? Well you'll need security passes, the safe combination, plus
the levels are constantly patrolled by robots and filled with booby traps. What's
that? You're still interested? Well here's the chance to pull off the robbery
of your career!
You start on the bottom floor of the first of ten screens, with your yellow bald headed character eager for action. To progress to the upper levels, you have to collect security passes, which are dotted around the levels and resemble the letter S. Obtaining a security pass is simply a matter of walking over it and then later touching the elevator shaft's force field control panel to deactivate the barrier. Also, along the levels are small envelopes, which need to be collected in order to obtain the complete combination for the safe on the last level.
The
game can be quite hard to play as touching anything that flashes will result
in a loss of one of your 5 lives. Pressing the fire button will make your character
jump into the air, with the joystick used to glide him back down to safety.
Robot security guards glide along each level and need to be jumped over to avoid
death. This can be particularly tricky as some floor surfaces are moving walkways
needing careful manoeuvring to avoid jumping over a robot and into an overhead
printing press.
Animation is very
limited in this game, as is variety and originality. Each screen looks very
much like the last and the obvious placement of the security passes and combination
envelopes leaves jumping over the robots and timing your movement under the
presses as the only real challenge. That said, the game is quite hard from the
beginning, but lack of any variety leaves this platform game in a vault of it's
own marked "quietly forget".
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"GO
TO JAIL!"
(3/10) |
GAME
TIPS
Judge your jumps carefully across platforms as the collision detection isn't
perfect resulting in a lost life from landing too close to the edge.
Some objects can be jumped onto to, leaving you safe from
the robot guards who glide past you.
CLICK
HERE to Download an Unlimited Lives file for use in the Atari 800Win
Emulator.
BPC - Burglary
Prevention Council
(Security tips to protect your home from burglary)
www.burglaryprevention.org
Gizmo
(The T63 Artemis Robot Patrol Guard)
www.gizmo.com.au/public/News/news.asp?articleid=2635
Ibiztoday.com
(The T7S Robot Guard Dog)
www.ibiztoday.com/eng/articleviewer.html?art_id=34164&lang=eng