One Man and his Droid

created and published by Mastertronic in 1985, running on Amstrad CPC

type: action/reflex, maze
genre: Science Fiction
perspective: side view
player options: single player

languages: eng

3.6/5

Official description

You have flown to the planet Andromadous with your droid to capture Ramboids, a male form of alien sheep. They only have an active life of twenty minutes, so to teleport them back to Earth in a suitable form you will have to move fast. As time runs out you must control your droid up through the hundreds of free Ramboids to gain access to the cavern entrance. The left hand status panel will then show which order the Ramboids have to be coerced into the teleport receptor, 4 or more Ramboids correctly installed will allow you to move to the next cavern.

Being a bit stupid the Ramboids only move in a certain pattern, either up right bump, down left bump or vice versa.

The droid has three modes of operation as shown on the bottom of the control panel. A quick press on the fire button will alter mode from fly, to dig, into tunnelling. A long press will show the location of all the remaining Ramboids. Tunnelling correctly is probably the most important skill required to succeed in capturing all the Ramboids in all 20 caverns.

When you have another go, the password system will allow you to start where you left off.