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Post by Chris M on Aug 7, 2011 2:29:00 GMT
I know this is very off topic for the forum, but this is driving me mad!
I'm trying to remember the name of a game I played on the Commodore 64 I had as a kid in the mid 1980s.
I'm pretty sure it was a platform game with horizontal scrolling. The play went from left to right.
The character was an animal, possibly a frog, almost certainly green.
The main landscape surface was green grass, but there were areas (brown?) that hurt you if stepped on them. I think these were radioactive areas?
We only had a tape drive, so it definitely came on that medium. It was on a cassette with several other games, and I think it was towards the end of the tape.
Sorry this is slightly vague and not a lot to go on, but I was only about 7 - a long time ago now!
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Post by Colin on Aug 7, 2011 7:42:57 GMT
Mate of mine says "Frogger"
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Post by v52gc on Aug 7, 2011 8:46:56 GMT
I thought Frogger as well but that doesn't scroll horizontally...
I'll have a look at my old c64 tapes when I get home...
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Post by cso on Aug 7, 2011 8:51:57 GMT
I'd suggest Frogger... I still play it occasionally too (on a Lighting Desk of all places)
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Post by Chris M on Aug 7, 2011 10:23:13 GMT
It's definitely not Frogger - it was playing a flash version of that which got me thinking about the old C64 games I used to play. This is the only one I've not been able to figure out.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2011 15:40:17 GMT
I had a Commodore 64, and in all likelyhood, played the game you mention, but, sadly, my memory is just as vague, and as well, it was quite some time ago too!
Did have am Amstrad 464 with green screen!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2011 15:55:15 GMT
My guess is "Frog 64" by Alligata Games from 1983. Go to www.c64.com choose Games, type in frog and hit "Seek". [I used to have a TRS 80 and played some maze game back in late 1979 to early 1980. Drove myself crazy trying to get off the 4th level. Never succeeded! You had to collect things and use them to get to different levels and fight off "monsters". Mostly I eventually died of starvation due to not moving along. This was all done with a cassette drive! But you could save your position for next time.] |
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Post by v52gc on Aug 8, 2011 8:46:08 GMT
I checked my old games and couldn't find anything similar looking at the tape covers. Was the character yellow maybe? Because there was a game with a yellow thing that couldn't walk on some bits...
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Post by Chris M on Aug 8, 2011 18:55:22 GMT
It could have been yellow, particularly if it was a greeny-yellow. I remember it being a bright limey green
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Post by Chris M on Aug 11, 2011 0:03:09 GMT
I asked this question in several places and the folks at gaming.stackexchange.com came up with the answer first. The game is "Gribbly's Day Out" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gribbly%27s_Day_OutI've been trying to remember this on and off for years! |
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Post by mrfs42 on Aug 11, 2011 2:44:33 GMT
I asked this question in several places and the folks at gaming.stackexchange.com came up with the answer first. The game is "Gribbly's Day Out" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gribbly%27s_Day_OutI've been trying to remember this on and off for years! I don't know what you've done, but that's returning a 404 error from Wikipedia. ;D |
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Post by Phil on Aug 11, 2011 10:10:43 GMT
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Post by Chris M on Aug 11, 2011 14:20:34 GMT
I asked this question in several places and the folks at gaming.stackexchange.com came up with the answer first. The game is "Gribbly's Day Out" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gribbly%27s_Day_OutI've been trying to remember this on and off for years! I don't know what you've done, but that's returning a 404 error from Wikipedia. ;D Somehow, between the i and k in "/wiki/" there are three encoded non-ascii characters, å and two non-printable ones (80 and 8B if that means anything to anyone). How they got there I have no idea! |
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