One Man And His Droid (1985) - Amstrad CPC 464 (Full Tape Rip / Cassette Load)
1The Silence at the beginning is supposed to be there.
Plug into your Amstrad CPC 464 and play.
Full game load from tape. Works perfectly.
Works with Amstrads with Aux port mod.
Alternatively record to cassette and play on non-mod CPC.
Make sure you set the correct volume!
To load on Amstrad CPC 464 type (Run") without brackets. When Amstrad says "Press Play on Tape then press any key", play video then press any key.
Have fun on retro machines!
GAME DESCRIPTION
One Man and His Droid is a game published by Mastertronic in 1985. The name of the game is a play on the title of the BBC television show One Man and His Dog. The object of the game is to use a doglike droid to collect Ramboids, the male form of alien sheep. The player must move these Ramboids into teleporters to win the game.
GAMEPLAY
Before the game begins, the player is given the option of inputting a password in order to resume a game they were playing earlier, otherwise starting at the beginning. There are passwords for each of the twenty different ramboid-filled caverns, and as the player progresses through each cavern, the computer releases the corresponding password.
At the start of a game, the screen is split up into several different windows. Largest and centrally placed is the main window that looks into a cavern, displaying a view of the droid placed centrally amongst the scenery. The first task is to guide the droid to the start position.
Ramboids are dim. They move very predictably, and always reverse their direction of movement if their way is blocked. They are also delicate creatures that only live for about twenty minutes. The player is working against the clock all the time. Should the player fail to get at least four Ramboids in the teleport in the right order within the time, play is returned to the first screen.
A follow-up, One Man and his Droid II, was written for the ZX Spectrum in 1991 but wasn't commercially published. It was eventually released on the internet in 2001 by its programmer, Clive Brooker.
http://www.autolaunch.co.uk/omahdii.htm