Aventures de Moktar

STORY / GAMEPLAY
The game's hero is a male fox that goes on a quest to rescue Suzy who's been kidnapped and taken somewhere in the Sahara Desert. The game is split into 15 levels where you must avoid or throw objects on dogs, construction workers, giant bees and other creatures. Although you travel unarmed, weapons can be found along the perilous route to little Foxy! Boxes, rocks and so on lie on the ground and by pulling down and pressing the fire button while standing over an object you pick it up and it's ready to be thrown to your opponents' heads! There are also entrances to secret rooms and passages you should locate to further aid your progress. More on that, you need to find the most important items of the game; the brass magic lamps. By taking a lamp, a friendly genie inside will grant you an access code for the particular level you're currently exploring! Just try to remember (or better, write down) the given code and use it once you lose all of your lives! Overall, the game looks great and plays like charm and I must admit that the gradual difficulty level is one of its best assets. Aventures De Moktar (a.k.a Titus The Fox) is a classic and very addictive platform game that will keep you playing a lot.

GRAPHICS / SOUND
The game on the Amstrad CPC has some nice visuals, with beautiful and colorful backgrounds, although the frame-rate with its eight-way scrolling suffers a little while moving around, but this is normal for the CPC hardware, with so much detail in its graphics. The backgrounds themselves are cool looking and fulfill their purpose with success.
On the negative side, the game's sound is weak, offering a rather repetitive Arabian-style in-game tune and no sound effects.