Critical Mass (1985 video game)

Critical Mass (known as Power! in North America) is a video game developed by Simon Francis and published in 1985 by Durell Software for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum.

"Critical Mass (video game)" redirects here. For the 1982 adventure game, see Sirius Software.
Critical Mass
Developer(s)Simon Francis
Publisher(s)Durell Software
Platform(s)Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
Release1985
Genre(s)Action

Plot

An anti-matter power station on an orbiting asteroid is used by the local star system for energy. The station has been taken over by hostile aliens who are threatening to overload the power system which will turn the reactor into a massive black hole and destroy not only the planetary system, but several nearby stars as well.

The object of the game is to make it to the heavily defended power station and disable it before the reactor reaches critical mass and implodes.[1]

Gameplay

The player may control the hovercraft in either a normal joystick operational mode or with vectored movement. When the player pushes forward on the joystick, the hovercraft accelerates, and when pulling back on the joystick, speed decreases.[2]

Reception

In 1988, Dragon reviewed Power!, and gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.[2]

Reviews
gollark: Nope, it's a 5x5 red-only LED matrix.
gollark: It would be funny for about 10 seconds but then never mine a single block.
gollark: In any case, it doesn't seem like there's much to be done with a single micro:bit other than bad gimmicky games and hooking it up to other stuff.
gollark: I don't know.
gollark: > This work is based upon the amazing reverse engineering efforts of Sebastian Macke based upon an old text-to-speech (TTS) program called SAM (Software Automated Mouth) originally released in 1982 for the Commodore 64. The result is a small C library that we have adopted and adapted for the micro:bit. You can find out more from his homepage. Much of the information in this document was gleaned from the original user’s manual which can be found here.

References
  1. Critical Mass cassette inlay instructions
  2. Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (July 1988). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (135): 82–89.
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