THE SPECTRUMN GAMES DATABASE



GOBBLE A GHOST



PUBLISHER

CDS MicroSystems



AUTHOR

Unknown



YEAR

1982





CATEGORY

Arcade



DESCRIPTION

The title says it all - it's a PacMan clone!



CONTROLS

Cursor Keys

Cursor Joystick



INSTRUCTIONS

Do I need to explain PacMan? Alright, briefly then. You guide a

small yellow ball with a big mouth around a maze eating dots.

Four ghosts chase you and will kill you if you are caught. The

only way to turn the tables is to eat one of the four larger

dots, which makes it possible for you to eat the ghosts for a

short period while they remain blue.  Once all of the dots are

gone, it's the end of the level and you progress to the next

which is a bit faster.



CHEATS

Use POKE 30597,0 for infinite lives.



SEQUELS/PREQUELS

None. A million other PacMan clones, though!



SCORES RECEIVED

Gobble a Ghost was DEFINITELY released before any games reviewing

magazines were about. I guess that makes it kind of old.



URL

This snapshot is NOT widely available.



GENERAL FACTS

Gobble a Ghost is also one of those rare beasts - a 16k game! It

has only very simple graphics and sounds, but then again so did

the original PacMan!



As a conversion, it isn't bad, but it's far from the best Speccy

PacMan game. PacMan himself is a little too thin, and there are

no "fleeing eyes" when you scoff a ghost, but the maze is

faithful to the arcade original even though the highly amusing

"intermission" screens are missing.



CDS did a number of other Spectrum titles very early in its life,

but then seemed to disappear.



NOTES

Gobble a Ghost is fun for a while, but you'll soon be aching for

a better Pac-clone. Probably your best bet if you've only got a

16k Speccy though!

