En el reino de los juegos con poca memoria, la memorización es quien gobierna. Scramble es un juego corto para los estándares de hoy en día, pero de tamaño común para los juegos de disparos de la época, y su manera de compensar esa cortedad es ofreciendo un reto insuperable y variedad decente. En este pequeño pero tenso arcade se puede apreciar la misma filosofía de diseño que acabaría dando lugar a clásicos como Castlevania, Gradius y tantos otros títulos. Por desgracia, Scramble no llega a la altura de sus descendientes en lo que a satisfacción ofrecida se refiere, pero posee una variedad envidiable para la época. La alternancia entre niveles compuestos por oleadas de enemigos a otros en los que esquivar es lo principal, y una última sección en la que la clave es superar un laberinto, se siente banal a día de hoy, pero tuvieron que romperle los nervios a más de une jugadore del momento.
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In the realm of short, memory-costly games, memorization is king. Scramble is a short game by today's standards, but common-sized for shoot'em ups of the era, and its way of making up for that shortness is by offering an insurmountable challenge and a decent variety. In this small but tense title you'll be able to appreciate the same same philosophy of design that would eventually give birth to the likes of Castlevania, Gradius and countless other classics. Unfortunately, Scramble doesn't reach the heights of its descendants in terms of satisfactory gameplay, but it has a pretty exceptional diversity. The ability to alternate between levels that are packed with enemies with others where dodging is the main action, alongside the latter ones that amount to small mazes, seems quaint today, but had to be nerve-breaking for players of the era.
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In the realm of short, memory-costly games, memorization is king. Scramble is a short game by today's standards, but common-sized for shoot'em ups of the era, and its way of making up for that shortness is by offering an insurmountable challenge and a decent variety. In this small but tense title you'll be able to appreciate the same same philosophy of design that would eventually give birth to the likes of Castlevania, Gradius and countless other classics. Unfortunately, Scramble doesn't reach the heights of its descendants in terms of satisfactory gameplay, but it has a pretty exceptional diversity. The ability to alternate between levels that are packed with enemies with others where dodging is the main action, alongside the latter ones that amount to small mazes, seems quaint today, but had to be nerve-breaking for players of the era.