Elevator
I was looking through my old games collection, wondering what game to review when this one popped up. I just had to add it to the site! This game is a total classic.
I laughed when I found out who designed it. There is a guy here at work called David Bayliss, but I’m sure he’s no relation. David Bayliss ran a one-man company called Wordworks, him being the one man in it. Wordworks has only released two freeware titles that I am aware of – Elevator and X-Fighter.
Anyhoo, seeing as I am reviewing the game, I should actually talk about the game! This game is great. By looking at the title of the name “Elevator” you can safely assume this game has an elevator in it. It sure does, in fact it’s all about elevators.
You are this cute little dude, who has to ride the elevators around the level and collect all the bags of gold. Once you have done that you can go onto the next level. Seems easy you say? It is no way near as easy as it seems. Timing is critical, those lifts get faster and it gets harder and harder. As with all old games the character isn’t nice and responsive like they are in modern games, you need to use pure skill. One slip and ‘ahhhhhhhhh’ down the elevator shaft you fall. You only get so many lives, so it pays to ration them.
The graphics aren’t all that bad, just what you would expect from an older game – yellow red and green gracing the screen. However, the colours do suit the simplicity of the game, and are not hard on the eyes. They are quite good.
This game is excellent. You really should give it a whirl, and see if you have the pure skill required. I really I do recommend it to all lovers of the old platform games, especially if you enjoyed Lode Runner and Jumpman!
Related Links
- MobyGames: Elevator
Read all about it on MobyGames. - Wikipedia: Elevator
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Elevator
- Designed by: David Bayliss
- Published by: Wordworks
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August 21st, 2008 at 12:12 am
Hi 🙂
Elevators is one of my most favourite all time old style games. I’d play it for hours back in the day getting high scores hehe. So firstly, thankyou for posting this. I have a vista though, would you know if there was any way to get it to work on this comp, or will I have to wait till I’m back home and can use my super-old 95 or xp ones? Anyway, yeah, this game rocks to awesome and I’m glad you found it hehe
October 26th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Have you tried using Dosbox? You can download it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/
January 3rd, 2011 at 8:43 am
Please let me know if there is a version of Elevator for 64 bit compatible computers.
January 3rd, 2011 at 3:04 pm
I don’t think they thought of 64 bit computers when they were making this game sorry! DOSBox works on 64 bit systems though so that’s a way around it 🙂 http://www.dosbox.com/