Zip Zap
{{Short description|1983 video game}}
{{for|the party game|Zip (game)}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Zip Zap
| image = Zip Zap cassette inlay.png
| alt = Cosmic Cruiser
| caption = Cassette inlay
| developer = Ian Weatherburn
| publisher = Imagine Software
| released = 1983
| genre = Action
| modes = Single-player
| platforms = ZX Spectrum
}}
Zip Zap is an action game developed by Ian Weatherburn for Imagine Software and released for the ZX Spectrum in 1983.
Gameplay
The player controls a robot sent to an unexplored planet called Hallucinor with the job of investigating it ahead of human colonisation. When it arrives, however, it is attacked by aliens and must manoeuvre its way through the planet, avoiding or killing the aliens, gathering fuel cells to remain powered, and escaping through teleportals to move on to the next level.{{Cite FTP | url = ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-inlays/z/Zip-Zap.png | title = Zip Zap cassette inlay | access-date = 2013-02-26 | year = 1983 | server = Zip Zap | url-status = dead | format = PNG }} The robot's circuitry has been damaged, however, so it cannot stop moving and has only limited braking power.{{cite journal | url = http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=Crash/Issue03/Pages/Crash0300080.jpg |title=Guide Spectrum | journal=Crash | year=1983 | volume=3 | pages=80}}
Reception
{{Video game reviews
|rev1 = Home Computing Weekly
|rev2 = Popular Computing Weekly
}}
While Home Computing Weekly said that the game had "professional packaging, amazing graphics, thoughtful facilities and [was] well priced" and Sinclair User said that it was an "excellent arcade-quality game,"{{cite journal | url = http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=SinclairUser/Issue019/Pages/SinclairUser01900038.jpg |title=Imagine zip zaps the games market | journal=Sinclair User |date=October 1983| volume=19 | pages=38}} Crash noted that it was below Imagine's usual standards and Simon Lane, reviewing for Popular Computing Weekly, criticised the game's difficulty, saying that it was "consequently frustrating to play".
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