236: Helter Skelter

Number 236
(4.5 points)
Helter Skelter
1991: 56

If you ever wanted to be a bouncy ball, now is your chance.

This game is really very simple: you just bounce around the screen as a small red ball, knocking out enemies in the order indicated. You can only knock out enemies with an arrow above them, and certain enemies will split into smaller ones if you hit them when they're not highlighted, making your job even harder. Controlling the bouncy ball is quite difficult, especially at first, as the method of making it bounce higher is not very intuitive.

Most of the games on this list have given me at least some pleasure and interest, but this is one of the few that just annoyed me. The ball just doesn't behave how you would expect it, and you end up ricocheting uncontrollably around the screen, struggling to hit the required enemies in the right order, and then the time runs out. I'm sure that if you have the patience to figure out the controls, you might find this fun, but I don't have the patience to try.

Recommended TOSEC disk(s):
Helter Skelter (1990)(Audiogenic)[cr SR]