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SLITHERING snakes and clockwork yellow ducks are your enemies in Quackshot.

Your task is to keep everything quiet in the Acme Clockwork Toy Factory. But as you hear strange noises and start to investigate, you are pursued by giant ducks and green snakes and other wacky wind-ups. The only way to escape is to destroy the clockworks with your stun gun and duckbuster bombs.

You have a time limit on each stage, collecting keys and bonuses to transport you to the next phase of your mission and add to your score.

You have to negotiate the maze of corridors, which are obstructed by toys or dead ends. There are 16 screens for you to pass.

The graphics are smooth and as basic as any other maze game. It is reasonably priced if you like this sort of run-of-the-mill game.


Publisher Creative Sparks Price £2.50
Memory 48K Joystick Kempston, Sinclair
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Norisah Fenn

QUACKSHOT
Sparklers / £2.50

Ross: It's a cheapie and a jolly good one at that! But it doesn't have the most original idea for a game. In order to disguise this fact, the programmers have come up with a silly scenario that sets the action in a toy factory where rampaging ducks and other beasties are on the loose. And because the inspiration comes from Ancient times - well, when did Tutankhamen first come out? - the on- screen playing area looks more like a dungeon than an industrial complex.
At any one time you'll find yourself looking at about a quarter of the maze that's made up of brick walls. As soon as the chap you control reaches the edge, the screen does a fairly fast and flicker free scroll. But then so it should be - everything else stops while this takes place. In all there are sixteen such mazes.
So, what stands in the way of your success then? Well, there's a complete collection of cuddly toys that have turned rather nasty. All that comes between you and constant cuddliness, is a standard issue laser-spitting gun and your duckbusters. To escape the mazes you must collect the keys that'll unlock the doors but you can only carry one at a time.
OK, so you've seen it before but for my money, and more importantly, for yours this ain't a bad budget buy. 3/5

Roger: Another dollop of duck soup that doesn't taste too fresh! Still, for the price of a Kentucky Fried this'll fill you up for longer. 3/5

Rick: OK, I was going to say this was foul but that wouldn't be true or particularly funny. I've played versions before but I never said I wouldn't play them again. 3/5