Instructions are provided in the program, but the article does a far more thorough job explaining how a nuclear plant functions, and what had to be left out due to time and CoCo hardware limits.
The player uses simple keyboard commands to manipulate pumps, valves and other functions that control temperatures and other operations. That alone merits a recommendation even if the programmers concede it's "not a state of the art masterpiece." The Rainbow hired Latham and John Erickson to write this as an example and promotion for the magazine's first simulation contest, and the result is a simple but pleasing diversion.
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And the controls are simple as they ought to be in a home version - although I haven't figured out how to use smart bombs or hyperspace - if they're even offered on this version.Īpril 1983 Co-author Chris Latham also wrote Donkey King, a clone of the similarly named coin-op many consider the best CoCo game ever. You also get the animated explosions of the arcade. The landers and other other enemies, even if overly pixelated, similarly look more like the real thing than elsewhere. The graphics and scale of things, blocky as they are, are closer to the arcade than a lot of other versions. In some ways it even felt closer to the real thing than a lot of other versions (Planet Invasion, etc.) that overall are higher quality games. And yet, for some reason, it didn't feel like an all-out terrible game when I played it. Gameplay also at times seems to feel more like the 2600 than the arcade. The flicker is terrible, easily on par with Atari's 2600 version of Defender, which in my opinion rivals only that console's Pac-Man cart for the worst flicker of all time award. The graphics are large and blocky (even though it looks like it was programmed in high-res mode - uh, why use all that memory and then make everything look so crappy?). Of them for their huge efforts in keeping our beloved titles of the pastĪ Defender game that in some strange ways is more than the sum of its parts - but still something of a mediocre effort nonetheless. Grier's amazing Mocha emulator site, while the individual games offered for downloadīoyle's invaluable CoCo games site. Letter grade if matched against competing platforms.
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I would probably lower all of their scores anywhere from half to a full Graded on a curve relative to other CoCo games. Might be seriously out-of-whack with majority opinion. Gaming community also factor in a bit, especially when I feel my opinion These are graded from "A" to "F" based mostly on my opinion of them,Īlthough the collective opinion of reviews from the era and the CoCo Want to submit a review or offer a second opinion? E-mail New to the Color Computer? Learn a bit about
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