SIMON BIRRELL
Reviews of Software
Microbe
Acorn User, March 1984Can humans play Simon Birrell games? If you thought Bug Bomb was fast, Microbe is manic. The story goes that you've been blasted into an all-powerful alien's bloodstream to eliminate its biological defences - antibodies, aminos, ribosomes, red cells and spores - from the inside. Biology 'O' level is no advantage.
You pack a gun in each of your crab-like claws and can not only move back and forth along the bottom of the screen space-invader fashion, but can go up and meet the nasties head on. It's a cross between Galaxians and Centipede, but there are no hiding places. Really it's a very slick and professionally designed game. The sound and visual effects are exemplary - but oh it's fast!
Alan Pipes