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- Hunchback -
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You are Quasimodo the hunchback
and the love of your life Esemeralda has been kidnapped and now you go out
to rescue her. Standing between you and her are many levels of deadly falls,
traps and guards. There is no way for you beat any of the guards and traps
so the only way to advance is to jump and avoid them. You start each level
at the left of the screen and your aim is to get to the right side and ring
the bell. Each level becomes progressively more difficult with the earlier
levels only having a single obstacle like arrows, boulders and guards but
the later ones combine them to make them sometimes near impossible. The
one thing every level has in common is the invincible knight that crawls
up the wall, he's not fast but he can he can walk over any obstacle and
if you take too much time he will eventually get to you.
Hunchback is the type of game that was very common in those days with short
and simple level design. If you are able to finish all the levels you are
simply send back to the beginning and you start over but with the speed
increased. Eventually you'll die anyway so you can't really finish the game.
The game is extremely unforgiving and at the least touch of an object you
fall off the wall and lose a life so getting to the final level is very
difficult. I used to play this game quite a lot but it seems pretty dated
today but if you judge it by the standards of 1983 it's not bad.
Overal rating: 6/10
Erde Kaiser
This game was released for several different systems here are some notes:
| Amstrad
CPC |
Released in
1983.
Game has been tested but not completed with winAPE v2.0 A6.
The BBC and this version are identical as far as graphics are concerned. |
| BBC
Micro |
Released in
1983.
Game has been tested but not completed with BeebEm v2.0.
This is the only version where you can select the level where you can begin,
by selecting level L you start at the end, pretty weird. |
| C64 |
Released in
1983.
Game has been tested but not completed with CCS64 v2.0 win.
The best with proper sound and the sprite collision is better than the other
versions. This is also easier than the rest because you can control the
hunchback while he is jumping and you get 5 lives instead of only 3. |
| VIC-20 |
Released in
1983.
Game has been tested but not completed with WinVICE v1.14.
A very basic version that looks a bit like the bbc/amstrad ones. If you have
difficulties getting the game to run in winvice try setting the memory expansion
to none. |
| ZX
Spectrum |
Released in
1983.
Game has been tested but not completed with emuZwin v2.5.
This version is even more unforgiving then the others and you need to do
some pixelprecise timing. |
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Date added |
Dec-23-2004 19:30 |
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Hunchback |
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Developer |
Century electronics
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Publisher |
Ocean
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First released |
1983 |
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Genre |
Action
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Download |
Amstrad CPC, filesize: 8 Kb
BBC Micro, filesize: 6 Kb
Commodore 64, filesize: 15 Kb
Commodore VIC-20, filesize: 70 Kb
ZX Spectrum, filesize: 18 Kb
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Manual |
Download manual
, filesize: 1 Kb
This is the same as the text manual. |
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Solve / Docs |
No solve available
Get text manual here
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