Plague (Atari VCS)

by Fehér János Zoltán

You’re a guy wearing a cloak and top hat traversing a bleak and barren landscape of black blocks, bushes and pits everywhere. So many that you start to think you're playing an even duller version of E.T. But it's not all doom and gloom. Well it is but that's just the atmosphere of the game. It's a typical platformer with shiny stuff to collect and a surprising array of creepy black thingies, all out to get you.

Some areas are in the dark and only the torch light around you reveals what's there. You have an energy bar and only get one life, but you can continue from the screen you inevitably fell down a pit on. Messages like 'No Hope', 'No Cure', can be seen along the way, just to cheer you up.

Quite a stylish game that plays very well once you get the hang of it.