Journey to the Center of the Earth! The title screen
The title screen

Journey to the Center of the Earth!

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Journey to the Center of the Earth! description

Two-dimensional arcade, no - despite the name - not related to the eponymous novel classics of French fiction of Jules Verne, or with multiple games based on the works of the same name. However, there will be fiction, and it was the center of the Earth. Unfortunately, the game was released in shareware format, and here you can get only the first episode is actually the journey.

The action takes place, by the way, not on the Ground, and on the dying planet Kranium, inhabited by funny creatures. Your character is a smiley ball with four spikes, legs (two of which grow directly from the scalp), which is the Supreme leader of his people was entrusted with an important mission: journey to the heart of the Kranium, where ten artefacts from a distant Land (that's probably why she mentioned the name of the game), embodying the ten great virtues (wisdom, honesty, love and so on). Finding one of the artifacts is finished each level of the first episode, that is, the levels of these also only ten.

A large part of the game takes place under the earth's firmament, in narrow and dangerous maze where there are as indestructible danger like mining machines, which only have to avoid all sorts and hostile to the hero creatures whose way of life is to succeed in the game you need to snap off shots from a laser is the only available weapons. There is even adventure element: in the process of wandering through dungeons bulb can find money-bonuses, which may then buy a variety of items. Some of them are useful (like extra lives - we begin the game with only two, and killed the character, so to speak, very quickly), and some - on the contrary, deadly, and find out what makes a particular item, it can only be by direct application (in this respect the game resembles not anything, but a real survival simulator).

Graphically, Journey to the Center of the Earth! looks for shareware games just fine - though, in relation to backgrounds, high definition rendering, though not too great a variety of objects, not of the character looking too cartoonish. The game is quite difficult, but will require you to stress not only the fingers but also the brain. Fans of little-known but multifaceted games - recommended.

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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com

Journey to the Center of the Earth!

Genre:
Action
Year:
1988
Publisher:
Chip
Platform:
DOS
Developer:
Chip
Perspective:
Side view
Gameplay:
Arcade, Puzzle elements