• Completed
& Reviewed by Neil Collins
Gyroscope is a Marble Madness clone by Melbourne
House. I remember the days when everyone loved Marble
Madness in the arcades; I remember being blown away by
the graphics and loved using the large trackball while
the machine guzzled my cash. I expected good things when
Gyroscope appeared on the C64, but it was a huge let
down. The idea of the game is the same: guide your
gyroscope down through the course until you reach the
exit at the bottom. The backgrounds are neat, but the
sprites are very poor. The music is as irritating as the
game play, and once you reach the difficult later levels
you will soon be reaching for the reset switch. The game
is also littered with bugs and dodgy sprite detection. I
had to rely on a fixed version to enable me to beat it...
The final level is
complete!
The End!
HOW WAS IT COMPLETED?:
I used a few cheats which disabled sprite detection and
fixed the major bug that prevented the game from passing
a certain level.
SO WHAT HAPPENS?:
Blink and you'll miss this one. And I literally do mean
that. Once the final level is beaten, a short message
scrolls up the screen in what seems less than one
second. The message reads 'CONGRATULATIONS ON
COMPLETING GYROSCOPE! NOW YOU CAN TRY AGAIN HA! HA!'
Gyroscope
