1983 Sinclair Research Ltd (UK)
by F. Itagaki (from Hudson Soft)
Driller Tanks is a reworked version of Itasundorious. I didnt notice much changes besides the colours and the names. This is the hardest game Hudson Soft released. It's also not the best produced either. Nevertheless the game can became very addictive if you are patiente enough to discover the little trick in destroying the Mammut monsters. There are 2 steps to get rid of each monster. The first is to fire your laser beam followed by a second move where you must drill into the monster so he gets reduced to dust. Your job is to destroy each Mammut monster and avoid them getting into the palace or you lose the game, you must also avoid or kill the Skork crabs if you dont wanna lose a life. Its a shame the game doesnt play faster or smoother but I think the people behing Hudson Soft were still exploring simple programming skills.
For 1983 I think this was good enough. But once you discovered other goodies like Manic Miner or Chuckie Egg and how fast and fun a Spectrum game could be, Driller Tanks would rapidly be forgotton.
