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| requirements = console, monitor or television, cassette recorder or disk drive and disk controller, Extended BASIC cartridge, joystick optional
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I found Void to be an imaginative and highly challenging game, one that I would recommend to anyone who thinks he's a joystick jockey. This game has excellent graphics and action and is a real test of handed eye coordination and problem solving abilities. With 20 screens, it is also highly addictive. I stayed up several Yiights trying to advance just one more screen, and every one that I managed to reach was different from those that preceded it.
===Performance===
Void is an arcade-type game that requires quick reflexes and quick thinking to win. You actually can win this game by finishing the twentieth screen. The farthest I got while reviewing Void is the sixteenth screen.
I found every screen to be well done, not only from a graphics standpoint but also in terms of how imaginative each is, despite operating under the same basic requirements. Sound effects are well done, too.
Starting with nine lives (none are added for the rest of the game), you must cause a man-like figure to jump or run over obstacles while avoiding everything from spider-like critters and moving walls to a low-flying moon that you may, if your timing is excellent, jump over. Beginning at one end of the screen, you must propel your man to the opposite end either to obtain a "key" by which the next screen can be reached or to slip through an exit that allows you to descend to the next level. Each level has its own colorful screen.
The difficulty of each screen depends on a number of factors which are impossible to describe briefly. Suffice it to say that the uniqueness of each screen is such that each is a challenge unto itself.
Oh, yes, if you jump too far, your man will fall off the screen. If the man is overtaken by one of the critters or runs into certain stationary obstacles, he will also fall off the screen.
The man will run left or right depending on the direction you push the joystick. Pressing the fire button and using the joystick simultaneously permits the man to jump. You must combine jumping with running to outwit some of the faster moving monsters you encounter.
