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Sbugetti Junction
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Trainee-traffic cop Louigi is on the loose. He still thinks he's sur le
contignon. Its megapile-up time unless you take control.

The Game:

Louigi has come over from Macaroni to learn the Breetish way of traffic
control. Trouble is, he's used to driving on the other side of the road.
He has to get lots of cars through each type of junction to pass the test
and then he can return home to his wife, Fettucinee. He's definately
having trouble though. Keep the traffic waiting and he gets aggro, and don't
let oncoming traffic go like that...

ps: it's against the clock as well.

Controls:

You control the direction which Louigi faces and his arms. To make things
easy for Louigi and difficult for you, you can change the driving from UK to
European. You use three keys: 1 = Left, 2 = right and 0 = up/down. Joystick
Kempston/Sinclair/cursor. Choose the level of difficulty from light/heavy/
rush hour traffic. You move to the next junction when you have got all the
traffic through the junction without crashing or waiting to long.


Sbugetti Junction by Muraya
The program code, graphics and artwork are the copyright of Bug-Byte.



Opisi:
Your Sinclair, #10, Oktober 1986, Overall 8/10 


  Pete Louigi has come over from Macaroni to team  the Breetish way  of traffic
control. Simple — buy three million of zese hideous orange cones and cover  any
road with the prefix  'M' with the flippin'  things so that it's  impossible to
move anyway.
  But seriousty though.Louigi has a pretty tough task on his hands cos the Brit
drivers don't want to be kept waiting too tong or our lovable Louigi will  lose
his job.  Stage 1 is pretty simple  as long as you keep the traffic  floving as
quickiy as possible. Stage 2 has beaten me every time so far, cos in that level
Louigi has  to turn  around to  control the  traffic, and  that's where it gets
nasty.
  There are three levels to the game,light,heavy or even rush hour traffic (not
recommended for those with weak bladders).  On top of that you can  also choose
whether you want to play the British or European versions of the game, (in  the
European version the cars drive on the wrong side of the road, some even  drive
backwards (probably the italians), which makes for interesting game play).
  A very simple idea  that's been well executed  — even  if stage  1 is  a mite
boring. Just-a one Sbugetti, give it-a to me!!

Graphics         8/10
Playability      7/10
Value for Money  9/10
Addictiveness    7/10
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Overall          8/10


Crash, #32, September 1986, Reviews, Overall 34% 


  Sbugetti  junction is  a  game of  skill and  judgement  starring  a put-upon
traffic policeman. Louigi  Pepperoni is  a  trainee  traffic cop  on  loan from
sunny  Itaty to find out  how   the British  manage to have   less    accidents
on   their roads than their   hot-blooded companions in Rome. Although   Louigi
has had quite a  bit of training,  his performance is still  a  bit shaky.  Now
in  Britain   to  further  his   training,  he's  been   turned  loose   on  an
unsuspecting public to direct  the traffic in a busy street.
  Louigi has to get large numbers of vehicles through certain junctions  safely
and  without any unsightly pile-ups. If  he manages to pass the tests  set him,
he can progress  to the next  junction and so  on until he  is a fully  fledged
traffic policeman who knows what  he's  doing.  Once  Louigi has  achieved this
status he can  return home to  Itaiy and become  reunited with  his  voluptuous
wife, Fettucinee.
  Louigi  directs the  traffic by  way of a  number of hand  signals  which you
control by pressing the  relevant keys.   Each  section  of traffic has to   be
property  co -ordinated  and each  vehicie  sent where  it's  supposed   to go.
Miscalcutation in  this area  causes  large  accidents and  Louigi's  life  may
also  be  in  danger  from    a  mis-directed   car.   It's   not    just   the
continentals  who get  hot under the  collar and  shout  a  lot when   driving.
According  to  Sbugetti   Junction, the  British  can get quite   stroppy  too.
If Louigi keeps the lines of  cars   watting too long then  he'll be in   for a
bit of aggro...
  The game  is played against the  clock. Louigi has five  minutes in  which to
complete each junction. If the cars  are kept  waiting then they start  to beep
him, and  if they  beep Louigi  too much  for too  long them  the  game-a  is-a
prematurely-a terminated, or as we say in English, it's curtains for Louigi.
  There are three levels   to the game. Louigi  can choose  whether he wants to
direct  light, heavy,  or if  he's  feeling  particutarty ambitious,  rush hour
traffic. Louigi is actualy over in  Britain  to learn about our traffic  rutes,
but if  you feel  like doing  a bit  of traffic  controlling au continent, then
there's a European  option in the  game where all  the cars drive  on the right
hand side of the road.
  Points are awarded for cars correctly navigated across the Junctions with the
current high score shown  below  for you  to  try and beat. Please  try to help
Louigt control the traffic  successfully so that he  can return to the  land of
Pasta and motzerella, and be reunited with his estranged wife and his  bambinos
which he a-misses so-a much-a.

  "Hmmm. I'm not at all impressed with this one. One game was enough to tell me
that it won't  appeal to anyone.   The graphics are shoddy and small,  but some
of them  are nicely  detailed. The use of  colour is a little  garish but there
are only a few  attribute  problems.  The game plays very slowly and it is hard
to amass high scores on the lower levels so it gets very very monotonous  after
a short time. Controling your man is not  as easy as it could be — in  fact for
the first few goes it is almost impossible. After a white it does get a  little
easier,  though, as  does the  whole game.  Even with  its cheapo  price tag  I
wouldn't recommend this game."

  "Sbugetti Junction is great apart from one thing—the game. The loading screen
is great and the  inlay pictures look impressive,  but the game is  very boring
and repetitive. I found that Sbugetti Junction nonsisted of two junctions;  one
easy and one impossible: this didn't help matters at all. The graphics are very
neatly and clearly  drawn but, due  to them being  all the same  colour and the
traffic controller being very small, none of them seem to really catch the eye.
I also  had some  suspicions about  the legality  of the  hand signals that the
traffic would obey.  Sbugetti Junction is  certainly original, but  whether you
would come back to the game after a few months is very unlikely."

  "If you've always wanted to be a traffic cop, then I reckon Sbugetti Junction
will  completely  revert  you.  if  this  is  a  real  portrayal  of  a traffic
policeman's day, then I',  surprised that any still  exist! This game is,  in a
word, boring. Even in  the 'rush hour' mode,  there is very little  to keep the
eyelids open, and even less to keep you playing. Despite reasonable graphics, a
passable tune, and even an acceptable amount of playability, Sbugetti  Junction
is one game that I  will certainly not be coming  back to, because I know  that
within five minutes, I'll have switched it off."

Control keys: redefinable
Joystick: Kempston, Cursor, Interface 2
Keyboard play: no probtems
Use of colour: simple
Graphics: nothing wonderful
Sound: tune on tilte screen
Skill levels: three
Screens: two viewpoints — British and European
General rating: An interesting idea, but an uncompelling game

Use of computer     48%
Graphics            41%
PlayabitHy          35%
Getting started     44%
Addictive qualities 30%
Value for money     35%
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Overall             34%


ZX Computing, Oktober 1986, Game Reviews, "Grim"
Sinclair User, #56, November 1986, Budget Review, Brenda Gore, 1/5