9.6 /10 1 Votes
Release date(s) 1986 Initial release date 1986 Publisher Durell Software Platform ZX Spectrum | 95% crashonline Genre(s) Maze Designer Julian Todd Mode Single-player video game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Developers Durell Software, Julian Todd Similar Durell Software games, Adventure games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fat worm blows a sparky
Fat Worm Blows a Sparky is a maze video game written by Julian Todd and published by Durell Software in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum. Todd wrote the game in the five months before going to university. It is the only published game he developed.
Contents
The player controls a microscopic worm being chased across the circuit board of a Sinclair Spectrum. With a top-down view, Fat Worm features early use of solid vector graphics on the ZX Spectrum.
Fat worm blows a sparky walkthrough zx spectrum
Critical reaction
CRASH awarded Fat Worm 95%. The reviewers were impressed with the solid 3D graphics and the quirky nature of controlling the protagonist, concluding "extremely silly, and wonderful fun". Your Sinclair, similarly impressed, awarded 9 out of 10. Julian later became critical of the game-play, stating that kid programmers like himself had "insufficient understanding" and that at the time "it seemed logical that the players ought to suffer" as much as the developers; but that feedback from players in the form of pokes and cheats often enhanced published games to make them fun.
