Christmas Eve (Commodore User)

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. It's Christmas Eve and Santa's reindeer have gone missing- they sneaked out whilst he was reading Commodore User. So the silly old Duffer's got to go out and find them, leaving you to deliver all the presents on his spare (battery operated) sleigh.

But the presents are located in the maze, and they're guarded by ice demons. Your job is to steer your way through the maze and collect them, whilst zapping the demons. Not having Duracells, the sleigh tends to sink of its own accord so you need to use its 'snow thrusters' to gain height. You'll get extra lives on completing the 2nd, 4th and 6th screens and you get more points for picking up sacks of presents further down the screen. By the way, you'll need a joystick (in port 2) for this one. The controls are: Joystick left move left Joystick right-move right Joystick down fire snow bullets Fire button-fire snow thrusters.

Published in Commodore User 1986/12.