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| General Rules: |
Play with default settings unless otherwise specified. No use of trainers, cheats, saved game files, auto-fire (when not default present in-game), emulator save states, or other emulator advantages. No use of code modifications that give the player an advantage over other players. 1 player only. No continues. It is discouraged and may lead to voters not accepting your score to - excessively point farm - use glitches or other game exploits |
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Bricklayer is an arcade game from the 1983 book of type-ins 'Sixty Programs for the ZX Spectrum'. This was published by Pan Books and credited to Robert Erskine, Humphrey Walwyn, Paul Stanley and Michael Bews. The author of Bricklayer is not given in the book.
Rather than tell you about the game, I'll give you the text from the book itself:
"You are in control of a small aircraft which flies across the top of the screen. From the bottom of the screen, a large wall is being built up which will eventually fill the whole of the playing area. The object of the game is to drop men out of the aircraft, aiming to plummet them through gaps in the wall to the bottom of the screen. If a man should hit any part of the wall then a life will be lost. In order to create gaps for the men to drop through and to prevent the wall advancing too far up the screen, you also have the option of dropping bombs which blow sections of the wall away."
It's a fun little game as the standard of type-ins go, at least for a few minutes. The wall cannot be stopped so ultimately this is a timed exercise in points scoring, much like the early arcade games of the 1970s.
This run was made on the 21st June 2026. The emulator is EightyOne running as a 48K Spectrum. The final score was 350 points.
Time stamps:
00:30 Title screen.
00:35 Game start.
01:04 First life lost.
01:20 Second life lost.
01:30 Third life lost.
01:37 Fourth life lost.
01:41 Fifth life lost.
02:09 Sixth life lost.
02:14 Seventh life lost
02:16 Eighth life lost.
02:20 Ninth life lost.
02:56 Wall reaches the top. Game Over! Final score 350.
Rather than tell you about the game, I'll give you the text from the book itself:
"You are in control of a small aircraft which flies across the top of the screen. From the bottom of the screen, a large wall is being built up which will eventually fill the whole of the playing area. The object of the game is to drop men out of the aircraft, aiming to plummet them through gaps in the wall to the bottom of the screen. If a man should hit any part of the wall then a life will be lost. In order to create gaps for the men to drop through and to prevent the wall advancing too far up the screen, you also have the option of dropping bombs which blow sections of the wall away."
It's a fun little game as the standard of type-ins go, at least for a few minutes. The wall cannot be stopped so ultimately this is a timed exercise in points scoring, much like the early arcade games of the 1970s.
This run was made on the 21st June 2026. The emulator is EightyOne running as a 48K Spectrum. The final score was 350 points.
Time stamps:
00:30 Title screen.
00:35 Game start.
01:04 First life lost.
01:20 Second life lost.
01:30 Third life lost.
01:37 Fourth life lost.
01:41 Fifth life lost.
02:09 Sixth life lost.
02:14 Seventh life lost
02:16 Eighth life lost.
02:20 Ninth life lost.
02:56 Wall reaches the top. Game Over! Final score 350.