Action Reflex

Action Reflex is an action-platform game in which you guide a bouncy ball through 75 screens filled with hazards such as lakes, drains, daggers, and pipes. Pipes can send the ball back several screens, while collisions return it to the start of the current screen and reduce the remaining time.

The ball moves left and right with increasing speed, and the fire button makes it jump vertically. Momentum affects both jumping height and stopping distance, requiring careful steering while airborne. Points bonuses can also be collected to obtain keys, hammers, and rings, which are used through an icon system.

• Developer: Medusa
• Publisher: Mirrorsoft Ltd.
• Release date: December 31, 1985
• Platform: Sinclair ZX Spectrum