I came across this game as I was googling for Chuck Sommerville. There was one site that had a huge page with Atari games starting with G, and I was scrolling down and down to Gruds in Space when suddenly this screenshot jumped at me. I was fascinated by the way the red field at the bottom seemed to curve back, and the border of the well too. Somehow it was more impressive than those chrome effects so popular on the Commodore 64.
Unfortunately, Geo doesn't play quite as well as it looks. The controls are a bit odd, especially dropping a piece is problematic. If you flick down too short, nothing happens, if you do it too long, not only the current, but also the next piece might drop, so you really have to get the feel of it. This might be an emulation problem of course, I don't know how it is with an original Atari joystick.
Andreas Binner and Harald Schoenfeld were the editors of QUICKmagazin, a disk magazine for the QUICK programming language, and wrote a couple of games and applications:
