Pssst
is an unusual game. You are a robot gardener called Robbie and
it is your task to grow and protect a flower until it blooms.
A Thyrgodian Megga Chrisanthodil no less! You have three types
of spray for three types of pests. Each colour spray will only
work on the insect it was meant for. There are occasional bonus
grow bags to be collected but that's about it. Every so often
Robbie gets his ultimate dream ... a picture of himself appears
in the centre of the flower when it blooms. It is a very simple
game with a nice loading screen. Pssst of course refers to the
sound a spray makes (what else would it be ?).
Cookie
was the hardest of the first batch of games. You play a chef whose
ingredients are out of control (all the ingredients have eyes
as well, doesn't sound very appealing to me). You have to get
all the ingredients into the mixing bowl so you can bake the cake.
This is done by throwing flour bags at them to knock them in that
direction.
The cake needs ten each of the five ingredients. Other things
like fish bones, bolts and sweets also fly round which add five
to the amount you need if they go in the bowl. Some of these unhealthy
items are thrown onto the screen by the bin monster who looks
exactly like Oscar out of Sesame Street.
This
game is so fast it is hard enough to avoid the ingredients (failure
loses you a life) never mind knock them into the bowl. A bad thing
about some of the Ultimate games was that they were controlled
by the keys Q, W, E, R, T and Y. Presumable this makes the keys
quicker to scan by the program as they are all on the same row.
But this arrangement doesn't feel comfortable or intuitive. The
games always supported joystick interfaces like Kempston but if
you didn't have one, a fast game like Cookie was unplayable.
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