1984 Choice Software (UK)
by Colin Gordon, Stephen McCulough and Dave Bolton
City Fighter is not an easy game. The controls are demanding and it may take time to get use to. Nowadays everyone uses the key arrows on modern keyboards and the mouse to control other functions. What CF offers is the same sort of method but instead of a mouse you have two lines of key arrows, one for the movements and the other for the firing positions. My advice is not to change the original key layout and play the game as it is.
Once you get your hands on the keys I'm sure you'll get use to it.
About the game itself, there is really nothing special going here, its basically a sort of Space Invaders meets Centiopede. The only difference is in the firing controls, each firing position has a key of itself, making more of a challenge.
The game plays fairly well, and can be quite enjoyable but after a while may became repetitive due to the lack of variety in each level.
All in all a fairly decent shooter but a bit outdated for '84.
Review by YOR on 17 Apr 2018 (Rating: 2)
Sadly, or rather thankfully, this has nothing to do with that Popstation Street Fighter clone where two men pull their arms and legs off and throw them at each other which Ashens has reviewed 50 million times. Instead you control a, thing, shooting, robot-looking things, around a city while rescuing humans. The controls are really tricky and pretty bad, it plays like a game fitting for a dual-stick arcade, like Robotron for instance, it doesn't work on a standard keyboard. It looks like something that could be fun to play but the complicated controls prevent that.
