Head over Heels (Spectrum)
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| Publisher: | Ocean |
| Developer: | Ocean |
| Alternative Title: | Foot & Mouth (working title) |
| Release date: | JP: n/a NA: xx/April/1987 EU: xx/April/1987 AU: date/monthintext/year |
| Genre: | Action Adventure |
| Number of Players: | 1 |
| Rating: | ESRB - n/a PEGI/ELSPA - n/a CERO - CERO-rating |
| Platform: | Sinclair ZX Spectrum |
| Media: | Audio cassette |
| Online Functions: | No |
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Description
Head over Heels is an isometric action adventure game; the psuedo-sequel to Batman.
Story
History Of The Blacktooth Empire
Far, far away from our star Sol lies the Blacktooth empire, an evil empire of four worlds enslaved by the planet Blacktooth. All of the slave worlds bubble with unrest, but due to the oppressive nature of their rulers they never reach boiling point, they all lack a leader to draw the masses of population together.
Blacktooth itself is not any better, a world rigidly controlled by its dynastic leaders for so long that the populace do not even think about revolution. The peoples of the neighbouring stars are getting very worried about signs of military expansion from Blacktooth and have sent a spy from the planet Freedom to see if he can push the slave planets into full rebellion by finding the crowns lost when Blacktooth took over.
The creatures of Freedom are very strange in that they are formed from a pair of symbolic animals that have adapted to operate either independantly or, to their mutual advantage, join together as one - Head saddled on Heels, and indeed these ARE their names and both are highly trained spies.
Egyptus
Once, a long time ago, a craft from Blacktooth got a bit lost while doing a hyperspace jump and landed on an unknown planet. Here the crew found a primative animal forming a sort of civilisation that appeared to revolve around wrapping corpses in lots of bandages and putting them into huge stone pyramids. When they returned to Blacktooth their emperor liked the sound of it so much that he rebuilt the capital city of one of the slave planets to resemble the story.
Penitentiary - The empire's prison planet
Millions are imprisoned here. A harsh planet, very mountainous, much climbing, skill required. The worst place is The Pit, try not to fall into it!
Safari
A densely vegitated planet, mainly used for hunting. The natives live in wooden forts in the junge, beware traps!
Book World
The emperor is very keen on cowboy books, and has devoted an entire world to a western library. Only the emperor's minions are permitted to read them. Information is rigotously suppressed in the empire.
Blacktooth
This planet has a large moon with three lunar space stations on it, the larger of these, Moon station HQ, is the main teleport centre for the empire, with a direction teleport to all the slave planets.
Sometime after the Egyptus episode, the latest Emperor sent out a craft to find that same strange planet, and after much exploration it was finally located and the craft landed. However the crew found the people had changed: instead of pyramids they used castles, instead of wrapping corpses up in cloth, they wrapped living men in metal and then tried to turn them into corpses with sharp metal sticks. The Emperor, not to be outdone by his ancestor, built a castle on Blacktooth and used it as his headquaters. This castle is surrounded by a small market, and then a range of impassable mountains. The only way to leave is via teleport to one of the three lunar space stations.
Gameplay
Head and Heels have been captured, separated and imprisoned in the castle headquaters of Blacktooth. Their cells contain 'keep fit' equipment, including a wall ladder that Head really must learn to climb. Your job is to get them both out of the castle and into the market place so they can join up again.
From there, the journey leads to Moonbase Headquaters, where you will have to decide either to try to escape back to Freedom or to be a true hero and teleport to one of the slave planets to search for its lost crown!
To overthrow the dictatorship on any of the slave planets would be a major blow to Blacktooth and you could return to Freedom in glory. Of course Blacktooth would probably enslave them again eventually but it would slow down any expansion plans for now.
The populace of Blacktooth are so heavily oppressed that they would have to see all four of the slave planets revolt before the Blacktooth crown could cause an uprising. This of course would be the ultimate accolade, and unfortunately, almost certain suicide.
Trivia
- The game was provisionally titled "Foot and Mouth", but this was changed prior to release.
Credits
- Jon Ritman: Programming
- Bernie Drummond: Graphics
- Guy Stevens: Music
Formats
- Amstrad CPC
- Amstrad PCW
- Commodore 16
- Commodore 64/128
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum
- MSX
- Commodore Amiga
- Atari ST
- Atari XT/XE
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Review Scores
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- Crash: 97% Crash Smash (April 1987)
- Your Sinclair : 9/10 (June 1987)
