Burger Time

Copyright : Interceptor Software | Reviewed by : Malc Jennings

Burger Time is another of those always talked about arcade style platform classics from the mid 1980s, it was even featured in the hit and my personal favourite movie series Back To The Future in an antiques shop. A top chef is being menaced by mutant ingredients which simply won?t allow him to make any more burgers, your job is to finish the burgers but dropping the various layers from each platform and avoiding the mutants on the way.

Graphics

Burger Time has everything that arcade games and those little table top games from the 1980s would have, great colours, nice graphics and all wrapped up in a favourite game.

It certainly does look like one of the earlier arcade cabinets and it has been pretty well converted (graphics wise) to the Amstrad CPC home computer. There are a few problems though, for example sprites are constantly being refreshed on screen as they move about the level which causes the entire game to be either incredibly slow or at times unresponsive of the user. Back then this might not have annoyed anyone but its a little bit of a problem today.

Sound

Sound is great also with some nice but brief spots of music and plenty of in-game sound effects to keep any fan of the game happy. There is nothing to complain about here at all so...we won?t. Well done to Interceptor.

Gameplay

Gameplay suffers a huge loss because of the contant screen refresh we mentioned earlier in the review, you will at times find your joystick doesn?t respond and our little chef hero just stands there while the mutant ingredients eat him alive and zap one of your lives. This becomes incredibly annoying when you only have one item of burger to drop and the little git won?t move left or right and bumpf you?re dead.

Burger Time is one of the favourites from this era and to some respects we can see why but if all versions of the game contained bugs like the CPC version then we honestly don?t understand why it has such a huge following. Sure it makes it challenging but it also winds you up.