Published on2005/06/04
One of the latest programs launched by Indescomp, Polluting Bacteria is a kind of Roland in Time: a platform game where you must go collecting objects, while avoiding or destroying the lethal beings that have taken over the complex. This program was developed by the Club of the Amstrad, and the truth is that, although it has enough quality, by the year 87 it was quite old fashioned ... Maybe it has gained more with the passage of time.
We have three lives to complete our mission. In turn, we have an oxygen marker that if it goes down to zero, it will take a life. There are enemies that only drain oxygen, others automatically take away a life by simple contact. We must visit room by room and collect in each of them the objects that will be useful to stop the invasion of bacteria. We have as a help a limited series of ammunition to destroy some of our enemies, the most dangerous, since those who drain oxygen can not be eliminated. When we manage to collect the objects in the room, it appears flying through it a kind of "mobile" portal that we must catch on the fly, and that returns us to the room of origin where we can choose our next destination.
This is what Polluting Bacteria consists of: the addicts to object-collecting games will know how to recognize in this program the formula of success, somewhat complicated here because of the feeling that everything is killing you. The graphic section surprised by its color and its approach to the aesthetic "Nintendo". As for the sound, the main melody is very funny, and the sound effects are, like in Supertripper, identical to the Cosa Nostra ... You can do the test!
Note 01/02/2019: We have added the Spectrum version of the game. What has not been put into networks, forums and world in general, is that there are releases, discoveries, news in short, of which one does not know.
This is precisely what has happened to me with this game ... Always wondering if it would have been published, by what name, if in Spain or the United Kingdom ... And it turns out that almost three years ago the mess had been solved.
As you can see, at least the Spectrum version was published by Microbyte, with the name "Exterminator" (to date, on the tab it appeared as "The Polluting Bacteria / Fumiga"), as confirmed by its authors, on the other hand they have nothing to do with - and it was foreseeable - with those who have figured so far in the credits (we leave them there until the information of the Amstrad version appears.
We have three lives to complete our mission. In turn, we have an oxygen marker that if it goes down to zero, it will take a life. There are enemies that only drain oxygen, others automatically take away a life by simple contact. We must visit room by room and collect in each of them the objects that will be useful to stop the invasion of bacteria. We have as a help a limited series of ammunition to destroy some of our enemies, the most dangerous, since those who drain oxygen can not be eliminated. When we manage to collect the objects in the room, it appears flying through it a kind of "mobile" portal that we must catch on the fly, and that returns us to the room of origin where we can choose our next destination.
This is what Polluting Bacteria consists of: the addicts to object-collecting games will know how to recognize in this program the formula of success, somewhat complicated here because of the feeling that everything is killing you. The graphic section surprised by its color and its approach to the aesthetic "Nintendo". As for the sound, the main melody is very funny, and the sound effects are, like in Supertripper, identical to the Cosa Nostra ... You can do the test!
Note 01/02/2019: We have added the Spectrum version of the game. What has not been put into networks, forums and world in general, is that there are releases, discoveries, news in short, of which one does not know.
This is precisely what has happened to me with this game ... Always wondering if it would have been published, by what name, if in Spain or the United Kingdom ... And it turns out that almost three years ago the mess had been solved.
As you can see, at least the Spectrum version was published by Microbyte, with the name "Exterminator" (to date, on the tab it appeared as "The Polluting Bacteria / Fumiga"), as confirmed by its authors, on the other hand they have nothing to do with - and it was foreseeable - with those who have figured so far in the credits (we leave them there until the information of the Amstrad version appears.








Gráficos: Carlos A. Díaz de Castro
Créditos de la versión Amstrad disponible en la web:
Programado por el Club del Amstrad
Gráficos: Miguel A.
Música: Pérez & Gómez