Spy vs. Spy (1984 video game)

Spy vs. Spy call themselves three in the 1980s, especially for Atari and Commodore 64 popular computer games. Named are the games between the two main actors, the black and the white spy from the satire magazine Mad

The game can be played alone against a computer opponent or in pairs against each other. In two player mode, the two rivals fight not alternately, but at the same time on a split in the middle of the screen.

Subsequently, the game was released for the ZX Spectrum, Apple II, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga. Also, a game console version for the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Nintendo Game Boy there. Since 25 July 2012, a new edition in Apple's AppStore is available.

Content

The aim of the game is to find three blocks of a puzzle into a maze -like structure field, and then combine these so as to leave the pitch. The size of the playing field is variable and is determined by the player before the start.

In Spy vs Spy I, the plot is set in a house, Spy vs. Spy II plays on a tropical island and Spy vs. Spy III in the Antarctic.

The plot of the three games is linked content. In Spy vs Spy I need to find a plane ticket; the game ends with the departure of an aircraft. Spy vs Spy II begins with a parachute jump from just this plane over the mentioned tropical island. It is imperative to find three parts of a rocket and thus to board a submarine with which one leaves the island again. This submarine surfaced at the beginning of Spy vs. Spy III in the eternal ice of Antarctica again.

The two players during the search for the three blocks to the solution with various traps ( bombs, traps, pits, acid bucket ... ) hinder. Whenever a spy walks into a trap, he loses life force; this is exhausted then the player coming off and the other can fertigbauen the puzzle in peace - unless he loses in already laid traps also all his life energy or exceeds a time limit, which depends on the relative size of the playing field.