Friday the 13th for the Sinclair Spectrum

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Friday the 13th

Year of Release

1986

The Advertising Blurb

The one you've been screaming for...

Warning: This package contains material which may disturb people of a nervous disposition!

Compatibility

48K Required

Original Price

£8.95

Worth now (confirmed sale)?

£8 Facebook 2019

Software House

Domark

Type

3D Arcade Adventure

Comments

Based on the Movie.

Controls

Left - O, Right - P, Up - Q, Down - A, Pick Up/Drop - M

Original Rating

Sinclair User 2/5 / Crash 32% / Your Sinclair 3/10

Review:

Conspiracy theory time! Judging by the gameplay of this game and that other classic horror conversion, The Evil Dead, a Mary Whitehouse sympathiser must have sneaked into the computer games industry and instructed the programmers to construct the most awful, pathetic, abysmal games they could possibly come up with, in the belief that it would stop players going to see such nasty unsocial pictures.

Together these two games should have been banned as the government, urged on by zealots and know-it-alls, was purging the free world of so-called video nasties around this time. Incidentally, this game contained such fun items as fake blood and fangs which were far more fun than the game (they also incurred the wrath of the Righteous Brigade who believed that they would convert impressionable young people to Satanism).

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