Overview - Super Snail

The Fourth Dimension have recently released a brand new budget game for RISC OS - Super Snail by David Johnson and other ARM'd and Dangerous members.

Set in a weird fantasy world, Super Snail runs smoothly on any RISC OS 3 machine and requires only 2Mb of RAM, so it's suitable for virtually any machine. A platform game based on a 256 by 64 tile grid the game consists of 20 one player levels, each of which also has an associated bonus level. The game also offers split-screen two-player cooperative and competitive options, so you can play with or against your friends.

The basic aim of the game is simply to collect the five magical spheres littered around each level - in the competitive two-player version you must collect more spheres than your opponent. Pretty basic stuff with some colourful graphics to enhance proceedings, then. The game started off as a sprite-plotting challenge, and it seems that the basic aim of a fast-moving game was maintained.

Many of the 'standard' features for a platform game are included - keys and doors, switches, trampolines, teleporters, updrafts, pushable blocks, ice, lava, collapsing floors as well as walls which contain arrow-launching devices.

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The game was due for release at the Acorn Southeast show but missed this - it is now available by mail order from The Fourth Dimension, however.

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