Game Review

Another dud, this time from Sierra On-Line. Before their famous King's Quest and other 3D animated adventured games, their business model and approach to games was quite different. Flip 'N' Match came about at the end of that era for a computer that was on it's way out (the Commodore VIC-20), was poorly advertised, and was little more than a computerized version of the Memory board game. This makes it quite rare today, but it's of little interest other than to collectors. It works well enough and the graphics and sound are decent enough by VIC-20 standards, there are one and two player options, plus there is a simpler version on side B of the cassette to make the game easier for children. But in this case the concept just isn't exciting for a computer game. It was probably an attempt to create something for what would eventually become the casual games market, but with the cost of even low end computers plus their lack of portability that market hadn't really materialized yet. So overall this ends up being an interesting program historically but isn't one you would spend much time playing and certainly isn't one that aged well.