1983 · Arcade · Platformer
Monsters in Hell
Early platformer
- Released
- 1983
- Platforms
- ZX Spectrum
- Genres
- ArcadePlatformer
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- Edge Games
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- ActionScience fictionHorror
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
About
Monsters in Hell is a ZX Spectrum game written by Martin Lewis and released by Softek in 1983. The player kills wizards by digging holes in the floor to watch them plummet to their death. The screen layout and gameplay are similar to the 1980 Universal arcade game Space Panic.
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Reception
CRASH magazine wrote:
This game has wandered off the "Panic" theme to some degree. You play the part of a small, jerk-moving man who is equipped with a pick for digging holes. Six platforms give the game quite a height and these are connected by various lengths of thin ladders. Monsters (vampire types) are tiny, but they do home in on you very quickly — good job you've got nine lives! There is no monster bashing in this game (boring) the monsters being killed merely by their falling through a hole (or holes) in the platform — although this doesn't always kill them....
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