Fire and Ice (video game)

Fire and Ice. Subtitled The Daring Adventures of Cool Coyote is a produced by the British developers Graftgold Jump 'n' run game, which was released in April 1992 for Amiga and PC Chief programmer was Andrew Braybrook.

Game content

The player assumes the role of Cool Coyote, the blue furry heroes of the game. Fire and Ice is a classical platform game in which the player character to ignore jumping and hopping moves on several levels and thereby must take action against a myriad of opponents. Cool Coyote begins his journey in the Arctic and traversed in its course so exotic places like Scotland and ancient Egypt. As a weapon he can use up ice balls that can freeze his opponents, or snow bombs detonate.

In each level, six parts of a key must be found. With this, the output can be opened in the next level. In addition to the key hiding a small dog named Poppy, following the game character, after he was found. Achieved Poppy the target, the player gets an extra life.

Reviews

In his cartoon-like, very colorful design and the absence of screen violence Fire and Ice is a typical game for the younger generation of players. It was also one of the last projects of Braybrooks company Graftgold and was praised by the press due to the great ingenuity, good graphics and background music high. Even today it is considered one of the defining games that appeared in the final phase of the Amiga. It was, among other things, the ratings of "highly recommended " by Power Play (85% ), a " ASM Hit " (10 out of 12 points ) and an Amiga Joker Hit ( 86%).