Microhobby Cassette 03

Third of the thirteen installments in this series published by Hobby Press, which included various games and utilities (most in Basic) that accompanied many of us in our first steps with the Spectrum.

I must admit that I was not a big fan, the Load 'n' Run (it would take a while to discover the obvious why (...) [5]

You have to guide some ants through five intricate levels, avoiding your enemies and catching aphids.

Simple game, like almost all Microhobby Cassette ones, with simple but well done graphics.

Utility that allows you to enter, load and save decimal and hexadecimal routines.

Probably emerged in the wake of the Daley Thompson and/or Video-Olympic games, it has at least three varied tests (I have not gone further): athletics, swimming and gymnastics jump. Good looking to be an amateur game in Basic.

Go-moku is a game that is played on the same board as Go, and aims to put five stones in line before the rival.
This version will allow you to have a fun time.

This famous cards game had its own versions for the computer created by Sir Clive Sinclair.

In this one, published by Microhobby, you'll find a very simple game, without any special technical features.

The mission is to direct the ship you are in, dodging lots of stars of all types, and pose it on a platform that continuously moves on the ground.

Leaving aside the fact that landing on Saturn would be highly unlikely for reasons that are irrelevant, the game is the perfect example of how a technically poor program can produce great fun.

The ugly graphics and testimonial sound are compensated by the high addiction that dodging objects produces while you are thinking about which way to direct the ship.

Will A. Mateos be the same one programmed by West Bank and Capitán Sevilla (Captain 'S')?
The fact that the first of the two mentioned games is from the same year leads me to think that it is not, but it would not be the first case in which someone evolves in that way in a few months.

Among Paco Martín's games this is my favorite. Its mechanics, simple as possible, is to prevent aliens from stealing our water, and for this we must monitor the machine that produces it so that they do not stop it and, incidentally, that we are not stunned with their lasers . Simple, but very, very fun. (...) [5.2]

You move through a maze while escaping from an obsessive enemy that will not stop until it hunts you. There is a sword indicator, so we are supposed to get hold of it at some point in order to defend ourselves. [3.5]

You are a worm that has to move through a series of rooms eating the apples and avoiding the arachnids. There are doors that you will have to open with a key. [4]