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ISSUE 2 • APR 2012
ZXSpectrum
GAMER
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ZX Spectrum Gamer is a free, non-profit, fan produced digital magazine aimed to spread the love of the good old Speccy.
All images/screenshots/artwork used in this publication are copyright their respective
owners/creators/companies and are used here for the purpose of comment, review and parody.
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Many thanks to World of Spectrum (www.worldofspectrum.org) for permission to use images from their site.
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ZX Spectrum Gamer
TAU CETI
PUBLISHER:
CRL •
YEAR:
1985 / 1987 (Special Edition) •
MEMORY:
48K / 128K
Things
are wrong. Very wrong. After the human race is, they decide they
a plague swept across Tau Ceti III, the
colonists decided to make a quick
exit. And not before time, because
two years later a meteor went and
smashed into the planet. And if
that wasn’t bad enough, the robot
maintenance systems have gone a
bit mental and are flying around all
over the place, shooting anything
with skin. But of course, clueless as
want to go back.
Now, the easy thing to do would
be to just nuke the place and start
afresh, but some bean counter has
decided that the existing buildings
are quite valuable and it would be
very nice if they weren’t all destroyed
thank you very much. So one man
volunteers to take on the planet
The 3D graphics are fast and smooth, and you barely notice how small the play area is.
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in an armoured
ground-skimmer,
recover the rods
to the main fusion
reactor and shut it
down, deactivating
the robots in the
process. And if you
hadn’t guessed
already, that one
man would happen
to be you.
As the game starts,
you are docked in
Inside a reactor substation. If you’re very lucky, you might find a cooling rod.
a lander module:
other structures on the planet
a safe haven from
you can also dock with, including
the mechanical maniacs outside. In
military facilities, city libraries and
here, you use the keyboard to type
other civilian buildings. While most
out commands to the skimmer’s
computer - you can do many things of them allow you to repair your
shields, the civilian ones do not hold
such as refuel and rearm your ship,
weaponry.
take a look at the planetary map
and assemble the cooling rods you
But enough of the boring stuff.
have found, in a kind of jigsaw-like
Type LAUNCH and the game
mini puzzle game. There are many
proper begins. Here you get to fly
around, shooting flying saucers with
your laser guns and firing guided
missiles at enemy structures. All
very cool, but going around all guns
blazing will lead to a premature
and permanent death. Strategy is
required to pick off your enemies,
dock with other buildings and
make your way to the nearest
Jump Pad which will transport
Docking with a structure is fairly easy, as long as you
take it slow.
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