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The cops have been watching a notorious gang and have now decided that you must break into their warehouse. The mission is to therefore destroy the warehouse and state-of-the-art equipment inside.
The gang have killed more cops than you’ve had hot dinners so need to be got rid of as soon as possible. This sounds like the theme of a good game, but so does it...
Skate Rock was originally released by Bubble Bus Software in 1986, with the Ricochet re-release being released in early 1988. For some reason, maybe because of the popular use of the word Simulator by Codemasters to describe many of their games, the cover of the re-release adds the word Simulator at the end to re-title the game as Skate Rock Simulator. There is also very smal...
As with some of the other earlier Mastertronic releases, Ed Hickman handled the conversion duties from the original version for both the MSX and the Amstrad CPC, such as Chiller, Finders Keepers and this game. This took on the original Spirit Software version released (complete with the infamous “steering wheel”) and was based on that rather than the Shaun Southern version wh...
The aim of the game is to destroy all the destructible blocks in the arena.
Rather than a bat and ball, in Pulsoids, you instead have to deflect lasers with an Energy Mirror (effectively your bat). This bounces any lasers back (effectively like balls) back into the screen (known as arenas). This Energy Mirror be moved left and right (and in some fire can be...
Pulsoids is a game that has an identity crisis. On the cassette inlay, it shows as Pulsoids (plural), but during loading and indeed on the game itself it shows as Pulsoid (singular). Both of the titles are the same game, but the inconsistency is clear to see, especially as the logo for the game shows throughout. It does make you wonder how much information the designers of th...