Dynamite Dan
Dan lands his airship on Dr. Blitzen's hideout to steal the plans for a Death Ray — eight sticks of dynamite, a lot of falling, and Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca standing in for a soundtrack.
Super Mutt
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Silversoft's Super Mutt puts a caped, super-powered dog to work across a cityscape of platforms and hazards — solidly in the arcade-adventure mould that was everywhere on the Spectrum in 1984. It doesn't reinvent anything, but it's got personality: the loading screen's use of Rossini's William Tell Overture is the kind of unearned confidence that made 8-bit games from this era memorable even when the moment-to- moment action was fairly ordinary.
Verdict
Contemporary reviews were consistently middling-to-decent — 83% from Crash, 6/10 and 8/10 from Personal Computer Games and Personal Computer News respectively — and that's a fair summary: a competent, unremarkable platformer that's worth remembering more for its cover art and its cheek than for breaking new ground.
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Play & download
- Super Mutt at Spectrum Computing — full credits, scans, and a downloadable tape image.
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