Hot-Shot

HOT-SHOT


[allegedly] by M. Wallis


[but with many coding similarities to John Charlesworth's game Maggot]


[published in Your Computer (Nov'83) JimG]


from Your Sinclair, February 1986





How can a game with so few bytes (just 3854) have so many features?


Ask M. Wallis. His Centipede-style game has eight directional


movements - it's leggier than your average octopus - Kempston


compatibility, optional extra lives, hold/restart and automatic fire.


In all it scores more points than Torville and Dean!


Oh, by the way, don't think you've slipped up if your Speccy


appears to crash after the main selection screen - just take another


look at that copyright message. Once you've got that sussed, you'll


just need to know that the control keys are Q for up, Z for down, I


for left and P for - well, you can work that one out for yourselves.


To get the game in, enter the Basic loader and save it, followed by


the machine code.