Dear friends,
Weeks ago, Annachiara had opened a topic in this section regarding the "Eliminator" game produced by the Hewson for the Commodore 64, and in the discussion, I said that I considered Eliminator as a sort of spin-off of Trailblazer, another famous game produced for various consoles and computers in the late 80's and still produced nowadays for the modern ones... well, finally I have found some spare time to write a short review of this game that I think all of you already know... first, I insert the video of the game... for affective reasons, I would like to post the version produced for the Commodore Plus/4... for the "poor brother" of the Commodore 64, Trailblazer was released in 1986 and programmed by Shaun Southern aka Sout... here, you will see also the loading of the game... as you can see, the loading procedure is very very very very similar to the Commodore 64... the fastload that was added to the games, and not only for Trailblazer, was the common Novaload... this game was copyrighted by Mr. Chip Software in 1986... here is everything...
Without doubt, Trailblazer is one of the hardest games ever produced for every type of computer... in this game, the player represents a soccer ball that has to complete a specific path... aim of the game is to avoid the holes (there is a time limit for every path) and to find the just combination of the coloured zones that made the ball go faster, slower, jump and so on... The sound in this version is limited to a short melody every time that a level is completed, and the noises of the jumps or when the ball falls into a hole... but there is no need to be surprised, almost all of the Plus/4 games, instead of the Commodore 64 ones, had a very very very reduced sound, because on the +4 there was no dedicated sound chip, and the TED chip was the only one who provided to control both the graphic and the sound part... In Italy, for curiosity, the Plus/4 version of Trailblazer was cracked and redistributed under the name of "Magic Ball 2" on the magazine "GO GAMES" published by Edizioni Fermont of Milan... the exact number of the magazine was the number 18 of approximately March 1986...
See you all !!!!
Frank
Weeks ago, Annachiara had opened a topic in this section regarding the "Eliminator" game produced by the Hewson for the Commodore 64, and in the discussion, I said that I considered Eliminator as a sort of spin-off of Trailblazer, another famous game produced for various consoles and computers in the late 80's and still produced nowadays for the modern ones... well, finally I have found some spare time to write a short review of this game that I think all of you already know... first, I insert the video of the game... for affective reasons, I would like to post the version produced for the Commodore Plus/4... for the "poor brother" of the Commodore 64, Trailblazer was released in 1986 and programmed by Shaun Southern aka Sout... here, you will see also the loading of the game... as you can see, the loading procedure is very very very very similar to the Commodore 64... the fastload that was added to the games, and not only for Trailblazer, was the common Novaload... this game was copyrighted by Mr. Chip Software in 1986... here is everything...
See you all !!!!
Frank
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