must steer it over a colorful landscape of combat ships, aircraft
carriers, tanks, trucks, trains and other military targets.
At the pilot's disposal is an unlimited supply of bombs and bullets.
On a direct hit, the bombs blow the targets to smithereens. The
bullets are used to defend against enemy planes that appear as
the game progresses. In addition, the ground forces constantly
Summer is not a big time for new home video-game releases. launch missiles.
Still, several new ones have trickled in, including a real winner.
Here are three of the latest for the Mattel Intellivision system:
BURGERTIME (Mattel, for Intellivision, $34.95) is the winner.
Mattel hasn't introduced too many decent games since the early
days of its Intellivision system. Many recent releases have been
either too complicated or too slow to maintain a video player's
interest for very long. Burgertime, an adaptation of a popular ar-
cade game, is an exception; in fact, it's the best new Mattel game
I've seen since Lock 'N Chase.
The graphics here are an accomplishment, especially for Intellivi-
sion. The player can control the altitude and speed of his plane.
Direct hits produce a proper display of destruction.
But in the end, this one-player game is boring. Unlike Mattel's B-
17 Bomber, a similar aircraft exercise but one that requires a great
deal of strategy (not to mention Mattel's voice synthesizer), Mis-
sion X is nothing but plain old shoot-and-kill. Period. * *
Like most home video games, Burgertime is a derivative of other WHITE WATER (Imagic, for Intellivision, $34.95). It's really
successful ones, in this case, Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. But amazing how much information video game programmers can
unlike most derivatives, this is no clone. The similarities end be- cram into a cartridge these days.
yond the cartoon-like screen graphics.
The subject of this game is fast food. The object is to steer a chef,
Peter Pepper, around a ladder maze, crossing hamburger ingredi-
ents - buns, lettuce, tomatoes and patties - while being chased by
a gang of nasty hot dogs, eggs and pickles. No, I'm not kidding.
The chef has several defenses. He can lead his assailants onto
the hamburger buns just before he completely crosses them, and,
if he times it right, cause them to fall to lower levels of the ladder.
He also can bop them on the head with food. Or, if he's really
trapped, he can sprinkle a dash of pepper in their direction, tem-
porarily immobilizing them. Points are earned along the way.
What keeps the game challenging is that there are seven progres-
sive mazes, with increasing difficulty. In addition, the assailants
increase in number and agility.
As mentioned earlier, Burgertime is a popular arcade game, not
on the level of Pac-Man, but a moneymaker nonetheless. As an This cartridge features seven different games in one, all of them
adaptation, the Mattel version is quite impressive. Although it is involving the sport of river rafting. Reminiscent of Mattel's Skiing
easier to play than the arcade game, the key elements are all cartridge, all of the White Water games require the player to navi-
there, including the arcade game's jingle. And unlike the problems gate a three-man raft down a watery obstacle course, featuring
caused by Intellivision's disc hand-controllers in so many other rocks, whirlpools, shoals and barrels.
games - especially Lock 'N Chase - the play here is incredibly Some of the game variations are merely races; others include
precise. It is significantly better than in Coleco's Donkey Kong. treasure hunts along the shoreline. All are quite difficult.
Burgertime can be played by one or two players and there are As with most Imagic games for Intellivision, the graphics are su-
four different skill levels. For Intellivision owners who are fans of perb. But when it comes to video obstacle courses, I prefer skiing.
maze games, this is the one to get. * * * * * Rafting, for this reviewer, is more fun on real rivers. * * *
MISSION X (Mattel, for Intellivision, $34.95). Here we go again
with another video game where the object is to bomb the devil out
of the enemy. The player here navigates an attack bomber and Ratings: * * * * * Excellent * * * * Very good * * * Good * * Fair * Poor
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