What is Gearheads CD?

Gearheads sees you winding up toys and attempting to march them from one side of the play area to the other. There are 12 to choose from, and they all play very differently so be strategic in your selection.

Play againsed a human or AI oponent across four different arenas. The first one to get 21 toys to the other side wins!

This is the CD version.

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The premise is simple: Wind up toy after toy, drop 'em on your side of the field, and try to get 21 of them over your opponent's goal line before he reciprocally encroaches on your space. Sure, and chess is simple too.

Playing Gearheads is a blast — and would be, even without the Walking Timebombs. You can duel the computer or a human opponent (who, in the good-old-fashioned way, has to share a keyboard with you), or enter an arcade-like Tournament. In this, you square off against the computer, gaining or losing a 'life' with each victory or defeat. After every third win, you reach a Challenge level, which provides a new twist on the already twisted Gearheads environment.

Each of the 12 toys has a distinctive personality and tactical advantages. As the battle rages, you must select your next toy to release, wait until it winds (a strategic choice, as some toys take more time to wind), and then let it go along your side of the screen.

Some, like Orbit the flying saucer, fly in straight lines, while others, like Deadhead the skull, move erratically. And each toy does something, well, weird. Disasteroid is slow, but steady, and blows away anything in its path. Handy the glove can rewind unwound toys on the field. And Krush Kringle (the steroid Santa toy) pounds the ground and makes nearby toys reverse direction. In duels, you can choose how many and which toys to have at your disposal, and the offensive and defensive combos will delight even hardcore gamers.

There's twitch enough for people who like twitch, tactics for the brainier bunch, and wonderful toys that had us all laughing. If you don't like Gearheads, you need a serious infusion of something vital.

Turner, D. D. (December 1996). Gearheads. MacAddict. (pg. 90).

Download Gearheads CD for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.1 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Minimum Requirements

• MC68030 @ 25 MHz
• 8 MB RAM
• 10 MB hard disk available
• 640 x 480, 8-bit color display
• CD-ROM drive
• System 7.1

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II