PPP1 Research: Snail Mail

One game that I really enjoyed playing as a child was a short game entitled snail mail, which was a humourous game in which you played as Turbo the snail who was an intergalactic post man. This fun 3D character, controlled souly by the mouse moved across different galaxies where he had to collect all of the postage to complete the level, whilst avoiding the Slugs that, if touched, would send Turbo back into his shell and the level would have to be started again. The humour came into this game with the voice of Turbo and the whitty sayings that he came out with every now and again, and also the noise of when he falls off the path is one of the best noises ever.

The sound track for this is a very simple backing track that doesn't alter that much throughout the game as it is a fixed sound track. The reason for this is that there is sound efforts for the lazer gun that Turbo shoots and if the music was good this would get faded out compared to the sound of the constant gun going off, as one of the things needed to be done in the game is to get rid of the asteroids on the path. Apart from the annoying noise of the gun, the game is rather addictive and you can't help but want to get all the way to the end. As the game plays through the levels get progressively harder and in some causes seemingly impossible at first as they are very difficult to complete.Since this game was so popular they have also released an android version as well which includes all of the same features of the original PC version, which is a rare find and definitely worth the 61p.

The graphics of this game are very simple, but also excellent and wonderful to get immersed playing in. The backgrounds change through the different levels, depending on which galaxy you are currently in, which changes usually every 3 or 4 levels. Then there is the track, which also alternates colours but generally looks the same. The levels progressively get harder, getting to the last few ones which are nearly impossible until you have memorised where every item is that needs picking up; which is difficult as they are randomly generated.