Maziacs (ZX Spectrum) Review | From Loved To Hated In 1 Year 

This looks quite charming. I could see myself playing a game like this on my phone.

I guess the game would have needed an overhaul after 2 years. Change the blue walls to something with more graphical appeal, add more items like an invulnerability potion or a clear screen attack, make some balancing adjustments and it would still be compettitive until the Spectrum 128k appears.

The sound effects of the fight are so wired into my brain. That cnapp-cnapp-cnapp... at the end just randomly plays in my head sometimes. And those footsteps are the same as the ones in Jungle Trouble. I always imagined the food was jelly with those biscuits you get at the bottom of trifle in them. Me and my one mate used to call anything we didn't quite work out "wine". See those things on the floor in "The 16th Cavern" on Manic Miner? Wine. When we played this I asked him what the food was and he said wine. Yes, it was a joke but after that I thought it was fruit soaked in wine. None of us had a bloody clue what wine tasted like, it just seemed to be in loads of Spectrum games. So yeah, the idling animation, sitting on his arse if you don't move for a while. I wonder what the first game to do that was.

Shit!! I completely forgot about this game. I was 9 in 1983 this must have been one of the first games I played around my neighbor's house. Remember being astonished by the animation on the main character. Mind blowing at the time. Mr Don was the Don🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

6:22 Procedurally Generated Roguelike, 1983 style

I loved this game and still do, also Mazogs on the ZX81 ..which I actually find more scary for some reason.

Now THAT was fascinating; well done Rosie! I think Maziacs was a reworking of Mazogs from the ZX81, with the addition of SOUND! And COLOUR! And INSTRUCTIONS! and that. It's fun. Redefining the keys in a BASIC game is a piece of piss. In a machine code game it's much more of a faff, but I'm glad they did it. I'm still trying to work out what I need to change to get PSSST to work with 67890!

Coming off the back of the Chaos review, if you want a story generator, then the random hard/easy level generator is just that. Its basically Dark Souls for the Spectrum.

I could be wrong but somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind is the recollection that I had to type 'load "" code' to get this loading because it didn't have a BASIC loader but I could be wrong. I definitely recall my brother and I playing this a lot and me being rubbish at it because I just could not cope with keyboard and we didn't have the right joystick interface.

The mags always gave better reviews to the houses that gave them more money. Presumably DK's finances were drying up by 1985.

WELL Sir, I presume the programmers we're not too pleased at their beloved mascot being torn to shreds in the space of a year. ALTHOUGH if you check out the nicely titled Oracle's cave on the same erstwhile platform..you'll find a game which defies the aging process quite well.

Don had written Mazogs in 1982. So it was a two years old by the time of the first crash review. Try it on the Zeddy, it's still a great game. :)

Cracking stuff. Thanks dude.

Always had a fondness for this game, being one of the first games I ever had. For me the simplicity is a plus point. But the randomness was its Aquiles heel.

Interesting vid. Good job :) 👍

Bit random but have you reviewed Spindizzy? I have the big nostalgias for the spinning cone.

It's nice when you see a game that you totally missed at the time and it's nice when game elements make no sense (like not rescuing the poor sods)

I thought you didn't play modern games ..this is clearly Dark souls 4 I think the health is a plate of ferrero rocher, like in the telly ads