Big Screen Hero

Fight your way through your roles as the Big Screen Hero to Hollywood, fame and fortune.

THIS is a collection of four old games, revamped and tagged with names and characters from classic films. Each game loads separately, and throughout each one the screen is surrounded by a border which gives you the impression of being in the audience.

Clint Bites the Dust casts you as the man himself taking cover behind an overturned waggon in a frantic battle with hordes of Indians who appear in the middle of the screen and move towards you, enlarging in a reasonable simulation of 3D perspective.

Your movements are limited to left and right as you try to avoid hurled tomahawks while shooting the redskins with your inexhaustible gun.

Frankenstein Meets Dr. Jekyl is a Pacman-type game where you play Dr. Jekyl trying to escape from several Frankenstein characters. Eerie music during pill collection and spine-chilling screams when you are cornered make this an atmospheric little number.

The Sawmill Massacre casts you in the role of heroic saviour. In the background a struggling girl is tied to a conveyor belt which inches inexorably towards a spinning and toothsome saw blade. On the right of the screen is the off switch, but between you and it is a hulk of a man who ain't gonna let you past without a fight.

Ginger Bones and the Caverns of Doom is a hunchback-style game with poisoned apples dropping on you, flying arrows at knee and head height, and gaps to swing over on uncatchable ropes.