Blake's 7

A very cool graphic adventure inspired by a strange children's series from the BBC, which was broadcast by RTVE in the early 1980s and which yours truly was lucky enough to see (although I never fully understood it). Our protagonist, Roj Blake, living under the suffocating surveillance of the Terran Federation, decides to steal a ship to escape such oppression, accompanied by a group of brave souls. So far, everything seems normal, but you'll see it's not quite so, so let yourself be seduced and surprised...

The truth is that it's always very welcome that games continue to be made for the numerous machines that populated the golden age of 8-bit games, but what's not at all common is that a game developed for a computer as peculiar as this one is available in Spanish, and that most of the equipment is also Spaniard. Especially considering that, in our country, these two beautiful British computers were barely distributed, always in the shadow of the ineffable ZX Spectrum. I'm referring to the Oric-1 and its evolution, the Atmos model. Therefore, the most logical thing to do is to use an emulator to enjoy it on a modern computer. I personally recommend Oricutron v1.2, which is easy to use and quite intuitive.

It requires some patience because it's necessarily slow, but that doesn't mean it's boring. Quite the contrary, it's great, intuitive, and although I've never been a faithful fan of conversational games, I must admit that it's phenomenally well done and captivating. It offers fluid movement via the typical QAOP keys, which move a crosshair like a mouse pointer to position our big-headed character around the screen, over specific areas or objects, and choose the option we think is most appropriate from various actions such as Open, Close, Speak, Use... up to a total of nine. In other words, it's very complete.

In short, a great and surprising game, a wonderful rarity that you should definitely play. It won't leave you indifferent.