Abyss (1984) 
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| Publisher: Genre: Author(s): Minimum Memory Required: Maximum Players: Joysticks: Language: Media Code: Media Type: Country of Release: Comments: |  CCSAdventure / Graphical J.P.W. Smith 48K 1 - Eng N/A Audio cassette Europe | Click to choose platform: Acorn BBC Sinclair ZX Spectrum Commodore Amiga |
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Issue 22 (Sinclair User) 3rd Jan 2010 10:26Plumbing depths of a testing puzzle
ABYSS for the 48K Spectrum is a simple graphics adventure which is designed to test your reflexes as well as your mathematics. The idea is that you must cross a series of rickety wooden bridges over an Abyss surrounded by monsters which lurk in the shadows.
Each time you cross a bridge you are presented with a challenge which you must overcome before proceeding to the next bridge.
The test might be negotiating a maze using a complicated set of keys, avoiding giant rats, recognising a word in a split second, or doing some mental arithmetic before your time runs out. The sequence of the tests changes constantly and you need to be able to think quickly. If you play the game a few times, the answers will be increasingly easy to find, so it does not offer endless scope.
Nevertheless, it is a lively puzzle, with amusing responses from the computer, although in one case we suspected that it threw us into the abyss in spite of a correct answer.
Abyss is available from Cases Computer Simulations, London. It costs £5.
ABYSS for the 48K Spectrum is a simple graphics adventure which is designed to test your reflexes as well as your mathematics. The idea is that you must cross a series of rickety wooden bridges over an Abyss surrounded by monsters which lurk in the shadows.
Each time you cross a bridge you are presented with a challenge which you must overcome before proceeding to the next bridge.
The test might be negotiating a maze using a complicated set of keys, avoiding giant rats, recognising a word in a split second, or doing some mental arithmetic before your time runs out. The sequence of the tests changes constantly and you need to be able to think quickly. If you play the game a few times, the answers will be increasingly easy to find, so it does not offer endless scope.
Nevertheless, it is a lively puzzle, with amusing responses from the computer, although in one case we suspected that it threw us into the abyss in spite of a correct answer.
Abyss is available from Cases Computer Simulations, London. It costs £5.
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This title was first added on 9th October 2006
This title was most recently updated on 22nd April 2015