Gearheads

by Gearheads PC

Product Features

• Windows 95/3.1
• Mechanical toys strategy game.

Product Details

• ASIN: B0007YSLDC
• Media: CD-ROM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,696 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Gearheads is a fun little puzzle game that I am sure not many people have heard of. I first found out about Gearheads at school, where they had a shareware version on one of the computers. I was hooked. After a year or two, I noticed the full version of Gearheads was for sale at a local department store for, get this, .99 (or somewhere around two bucks). I immediately picked it up & bought it. When I got home, I put it in my computer and I finally got to experience what the complete version of the game was like. What did I think of it? Keep reading.. Alright, let's talk about the graphics first. The graphics are very clean looking and the characters in the game are detailed enough to make them look good. The environments look great - my favorite is the black & white tiles floor. It actually surprised me how good this puzzle game's graphics were. The whole point of Gearheads is to get 21 toys across the screen to the other side before your opponent does the same. There are somewhere around 12 (?) toys to select, and each one of them is unique in their own special way. For example, one of the toys is a white glove called Handy. Handy is very fast and moves straight instead of diagonal or erratic like some other toys. What makes Handy different from the others is the fact that he can restart yours (or your opponents) toys that had died down on the short journey to the other side of the stage. Some of the other toys involve a Santa Claus look a like called Krush Kringle that pounds on the stage turning any toys nearby in the other direction, and a magical penguin that can disappear from one part of the stage to another. Like I have said, each toy is unique in their own way. There are four different regular playfields to battle on in Gearheads - the kitchen, a frozen pond, a garden, and a factory. Plus, there are special championship arenas every once in a while that are pretty fun, too. My favorite of all of the playfields and arenas is the frozen pond.