Styx (Spectrum game)

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Styx
Developer(s) Matthew Smith
Publisher(s) Bug-Byte
Platform(s) ZX Spectrum
Release date 1983
Genre(s) Action game / Maze game
Mode(s) Single player
Media Cassette tape
Input methods Computer keyboard

Styx was an action maze game published by Bug-Byte Software in 1983. It was the first ZX Spectrum game written by Matthew Smith, and the first of his three-game contract with the company. He went on to write Manic Miner in the same year, as well as a sprite designer utility for Adrian Sherwin to use in developing The Birds and the Bees.

[edit] Critical reaction

Sinclair User described the game as "reasonably lively"[1], whilst CRASH said the game "would not be interesting if it weren’t for the fact that it’s not easy."[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sinclair User issue 20 at Sinclair User Magazine Online.
  2. ^ Crash issue 3 at the Crash Online Edition.

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