[{"TitleName":"Boilerhouse","Publisher":"Novotrade Rt.","Author":"Andras Fordos, Donat Kiss, Nagy, Seres, Tibor Horvath, Steve Newport","YearOfRelease":"1984","ZxDbId":"0000614","Reviews":[{"Issue":{"Name":"Personal Computer News Issue 93, Jan 1985","Price":"","ReleaseDate":"1985-01-05","Editor":"Peter Worlock","TotalPages":54,"HasCoverTape":false,"FlannelPanel":"Editorial\r\nEditor: Peter Worlock\r\nDeputy Editor: David Guest\r\nProduction Editor: Lauraine Turner\r\nSub Editor: Harriet Arnold\r\nEditor's Assistant: Karen Isaac\r\nNews Writer: Ralph Bancroft, Sandra Grandison\r\nFeatures Editor: John Lettice\r\nSoftware Editor: Bryan Skinner\r\nPeripherals Editor: Kenn Garroch\r\nHardware Editor: Stuart Cooke\r\nPrograms Editor: Nickie Robinson\r\nArt Director: Jim Dansie\r\nArt Editor: Dave Alexander\r\nAssistant Art Editor: Tim Brown\r\nLayout Artist: Bruce Preston\r\nPublisher: Cyndy Miles\r\nPublishing Assistant: Tobe Bendeth\r\n\r\nAdvertising\r\nGroup Advertising Manager: Peter Goldstein\r\nAdvertisement Manager: Bettina Williams\r\nAssistant Advertisement Managers: Laura Cade, Claire Rowbottom\r\nSales Executives: Claire Barnes, Phil Benson, Mike Blackman, Steve Corrick, Tony Keefe, Andrew Flint, Christian McCarthy, Isabel Middleton, Sarah Musgrave, Tony O'Reilly, Anita Stokes\r\nProduction: Richard Gaffrey\r\nAdvertisement Assistant: Jan Moore\r\nSubscription Enquiries: Gill Stevens\r\nSubscription Address: [redacted]\r\nEditorial Address: [redacted]\r\nAdvertising Address: [redacted]\r\n\r\nPublished by VNU Business Publications, [redacted]\r\n© VNU 1983. No material maybe reproduced in whole or in part without written consent from the copyright holders.\r\nPhotoset by Quickset, [redacted]\r\nPrinted by Chase Web Offset, [redacted]\r\nDistributed by Seymour Press, [redacted]\r\nRegistered at the PO as a newspaper"},"MainText":"PRICE: £6.95\r\nPUBLISHER: Front Runner [redacted]\r\n\r\nThe first thing you see when you start to load Boilerhouse is the short header program called 'Boilerboot', which on this occasion seemed more than appropriate as I wanted to boot the game out of the window.\r\n\r\nWhat was it? The relentless off-key music? Well, that didn't help, nor did the fact that although it has a Kempston joystick option, when I chose that option the game froze as soon as I moved the joystick and I had to reload. The same thing happened again, so I had to use keyboard control. The game does also support (in theory at least) an Interface 2 joystick.\r\n\r\nThe other drawback was that there seems to be no way to break out of the game once you've chosen which of the nine skill levels to go for.\r\n\r\nYou can't try a different level as you appear to have infinite lives.\r\n\r\nThe idea behind the game is that you're in a room with four boilers, and you have to ensure that none of them overheats or they'll explode. Beside each boiler is a pressure valve and you must move your man till he's in front of this. Pressing the key 5 releases the pressure on the boiler (keys 1-4 govern movement). Meanwhile, of course, pressure is building up elsewhere, so off you go to the boiler that seems in most danger of imminent explosion.\r\n\r\nThe boilers are on two different levels, and you must climb a ladder to get to the two on the upper level. The ones upstairs, though, are on either side of a divide, and you must constantly move the ladder either side of the divide in order to run up to each of the boilers in turn. When you're on the ground you move the ladder by pressing the left or right key and key 5 simultaneously.\r\n\r\nThe game is far from easy, yet it soon becomes boring, it is also one of those frustrating games where you have to be placed absolutely right in order to do things. You spend a lot of time inching back and forth, not a good game.","ReviewerComments":[],"OverallSummary":"","Page":"43","Denied":false,"Award":"Not Awarded","Reviewers":[{"Name":"Mike Gerrard","Score":"5","ScoreSuffix":"/10"}],"ScreenshotText":[],"BlurbText":[],"TranscriptBy":"Chris Bourne","ReviewScores":[{"Header":"Overall","Score":"5/10","Text":""}],"CompilationReviewScores":[]}]}]