The Berlin Wall | Retro Gamer

One of many issues I actually love concerning the very early days of console magazines within the UK is the prominence given to import video games. Slightly than being confined to their very own small part behind the assessment pages, they got equal billing with home releases, which meant you’d get to see all types of strange stuff which may by no means even make it over right here. The Berlin Wall was one such recreation that I noticed in a hand-me-down copy of Sega Professional. I believed it seemed very cool and the assessment recommended it was nice, however I had no alternative to play it on the time as I received my first handheld console a couple of week earlier than the top of the Nineties.

For these of you anticipating some Chilly Struggle shenanigans, overlook it – whereas the unique arcade model was stuffed with digitised pictures of that main second in political historical past, The Berlin Wall on Recreation Gear has completely nothing to do with its actual life namesake. Properly, until historians have lied to me and there actually was some bloke with a hammer getting chased round by penguins. I don’t know, I used to be a toddler. Anyway, it’s a type of puzzle platform platform video games within the custom of Lode Runner and Area Panic, during which ladders are essential for motion and also you defeat enemies by smashing the ground away to entice them. Aside from wanting rather a lot nicer than these older video games, The Berlin Wall contains trendy parts like boss battles, and it makes issues slightly simpler on the participant by making enemy actions extra predictable. There’s even a neat little combo mechanic – should you smash one enemy via the ground, it’ll take out any enemies it falls on too.

Sadly, The Berlin Wall by no means formally made it to UK cabinets. Actually, despite the fact that a North American model was not solely deliberate however marketed in magazines, the sport by no means made it on the market both. That’s an actual disgrace, although you actually don’t lose a lot once you play it with Japanese textual content, so it’s value a glance regardless.