by Chris Hinsley, Nick Jones
This is a lesser known Chris "Wally Week" Hinsley creation, which seems rather forgotten: personally I prefer it over the Pijamarama series. It's a sort of a platformer in which you control a spring, more precisely something that looks like a slinky - one of those things very good at descending stairs on their own. This already was a breath of fresh air in 1986, when the world seemed to be completely invaded by balls, just take a look at some of the titles released that year: Bounder, Revolution, Marble Madness, Bobby Bearing, Spindizzy and Lord knows how many others. So, we have an original main character that moves in a very funny way, and in a way that determines a slightly different gameplay - and each of his steps is accompanied by a great sound effect, one that I really like. Anyway, it's a pretty hard game, and timing is all - you're going to sweat your way out of every single room. Luckily you're going to find bullets on the very first screen, which will be quite handy, although the nasties reappear after a while, and other elliptical coloured objects which will temporarily allow you to jump higher or move faster. Graphics are really nice, with the usual unashamed colour clash that we see in the Wally Week games too, but this time less evident because the background is mostly black. Cute beeping tune, and nice loading screen too. We played Frost Byte about ten years ago here in the WoS forum when there was a thing called ZX Games Club, and I like it so much that I snapshotted it until the end. Pretty good, in my opinion.
4/5
