Mermaid Madness (1986)
- Download the game as TAP/TZX
- Play the tape for a real Spectrum
- Run the game in an online ZX Spectrum emulator
Mermaid Madness was released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum 48K. The game was published by Electric Dreams Software and developed by Steve Howard, Wayne Blake, and Paul Smith. Steinar Lund contributed the inlay and poster art.
This title belongs to the maze arcade genre and supports a single player. The game features English language text throughout.
The original retail price for the cassette was £9.99. The game was also made available on other platforms, specifically the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64.
The game received an average magazine score of 48.67% from three reviews. Crash magazine awarded it 66%, while Your Sinclair gave it a 6/10. Additionally, the game earned a ZX Computing Globert award in the September 1986 issue of ZX Computing.
In Russia, the game gained recognition through walkthroughs and features in magazines like On-Line and ZX-Ревю, which even published a short story based on the game. It saw multiple TR-DOS releases by groups such as Lenin, BrokImSoft, and Tiboh, alongside several cracked cassette versions by Jack O'Lantern.
Found 2 cracked versions (releases) of the game
