Split Second (unknown manufacturer)

Design of screen Grid:

This is a GREAT game! I remember a friend of mine had one bought from the USA as a present back in the early 80's and we used to spend whole weekends competing against each other with it. I don't think it was distributed in the UK, so I was amazed when I found this one. As you can possibly see from the image, the playing area is made up of a grid of LED dots and dashes, resulting in a grid 3 boxes across by 5 down. There are 10 different games to choose from:

• 1. Mad Maze-'Visible'. Move your ball from one end of the maze to the other.
• 2. Mad Maze-'Preview'. Same as 1 except you only see the maze for 1/2 a second before it disappears.
• 3. Mad Maze-'Invisible' As 1 except the maze is totally invisible.
• 4. Space Attack - Beginner. Guide your sight to shoot the moving space craft.
• 5. Space Attack - Pro. As 4 except much harder.
• 6. Auto Cross. The Best game in my opinion. Guide your 'bike' (a line) between sets of dots or around dots, like an assault course, without crashing into the side.
• 7. Stomp. Press the key corresponding to the position of the dot that appears before it disappears (about 0.2 seconds!)
• 8. Speedball. Chase the moving ball with your 'snake' made up of lines. Catch the ball within the snake to win.

In each game you have a fixed number of puzzles to complete, and your time taken for the complete set of puzzles is displayed at the end of the set. High scores are kept, so you can compete with your friends!