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The cassette inlay reads: "Can you ESCAPE from the monsters? You must search through the maze to find the axe which will enable you to break down the door and ESCAPE. But it is not that easy—the
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The player (in black) carrying the axe, and being chased by five dinosaurs. The entrance to the maze is in the bottom right, and the exit (still blocked) in the top left.
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The player has to search a maze displayed in primitive 3D for an axe, which will allow him to break the exit, and escape. He is chased by initially a single
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Upon finding the axe, which is randomly placed for each level, the player slows down allowing the dinosaurs to catch up.
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that will occasionally take off and fly over the hedges, not being restricted to the maze paths.
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and is one of the best and most original games we have seen for the Spectrum so far"
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as being amongst the best Spectrum games I have played"
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Escape (computer game)

Developer(s)
Malcolm Evans
Publisher(s)
New Generation Software
Platform(s)
ZX Spectrum
Genre(s)
Maze
ZX Spectrum
New Generation Software
Triceratops
Pteranodon
dinosaur
pterosaur

Sinclair User
3D Monster Maze
Popular Computing Weekly
Crash
Sinclair User
"Absolute power..."
Escape
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New Generation Software
3D Monster Maze
Escape

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