Much more than a horizontal version of Collapse! – Gold Strike Deluxe Review

V1.1 made the game much more playable (no nasty hitches and no crash in Strategy Mode going to the third level). The wall of blocks keeps coming at you and you can only fight off the on rush by toss your pick-axe at a group of 2 or more same colored blocks to knock them out. While the game feature 4 different colored blocks, the ONLY ONE that really matters is the gold ones. You'll have to knock the other groups out but unless there is some nifty treasure is buried inside, clearing even a wall of 16 connected red bricks is worth a whopping 0! In the Standard Mode you just need to survive so many columns of bricks advancing at you and, if successful, you receive a bonus for every empty space and move onto another faster moving level with more columns. In the Bottomless Pit Mode you are just seeing how long you can last in an endless level. In the Archeology Mode your objective is to see how quickly you can uncover all 20 of the game's unique artifacts. In the Strategy Mode it plays much like the Standard Mode but without a timer. The columns simply move forward based on your throws of the pcik-axe. At first every several throws will cause the wall to advance but eventually it will advance a column with each throw. Finally, in Dynamite Mode, it plays just like Standard Mode with the addition of three sticks of dynamite you can throw in when things get tough.
Review by Lord Gek on Gold Strike Deluxe.