Sorcerer

"Whoa!"

One thing, this is a really wicked game for the Atari 2600! I have been playing this fangled game for an two hours and could not put down the joystick. The usual Atari fare is in here, so don't expect anything new.

Graphics 6/10
The graphics were fine, but I know they could of done better, it was 1983, games on the Atari 2600 were much better. Well one thing for sure is that at least your guy looks like a sorcerer, but the enemies, you start to scratch your head there. As with all things, your guy is some dude with a square white head wearing a red robe with belt(maybe it's a Luke Skywalker look alike? Did you think of that?Who knows).

Sound 8/10
One of the few Atari 2600 games with music in it(insert sarcastic wow). But the music is really funky in it, its classical in it's style and yet it's a pretty fun to dance to(whatever, I had lots of sugar when I played this):) Again, it is just blips and bloops(whoo hoo). One downer I found was that the magic laser thingy didn't have a sound(mainly because of the limitations of code on an Atari 2600 catridge).

Control 7/10
The controls are really simple to understand, push up to jump, left/right to move, and either trigger to fire your magic laser thingy:) It was easy to kill the evil thingies that fire, which I liked.

Gameplay 5/10
The game gets harder, harder, and so on. Of course as with all Atari 2600 games(I am not antagonizing the Atari 2600)the game just gets harder, which will get annoying after a while of cursing at the evil thingies that fire upon you.

Fun Factor 6/10
It was really fun to play this game for a couple hours, than it just start to piss me off, stupid evil firing thingies. Trust me, it does start to get annoying after 2 hours.

Reviewer's Score: 7/10, Originally Posted: 03/01/00, Updated 03/01/00