Help - name the retro game!

[RobM77]

I'm trying to think of the name of a game I used to have on the Commodore 64. I can't find it on any of the C64 websites. You controlled this guy on a jetpack, who just moved in two dimensions up, down, left and right on the screen. Asteroids and stuff flew at you and you had to shoot them. Can anyone remember what it was called?

thanks.

[Gaffer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commodore_64_...

May be Turrican though..

May jog your memory.

Claire

Edited by Gaffer on Wednesday 3rd October 10:21

[RobM77]

Gaffer said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Commodore_64_...

May jog your memory.

Claire

blimey!! That's a long list!

If it helps what jogged my memory was that they played a dance track in the gym last night and I'm sure it was the music to this game

[Silentz]

Space Harrier

[RobM77]

wow! thanks!

that's the one

[FourWheelDrift]

Space Harrier? http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/space-harrier


Balls, spent too long trying to find a pic of the C64 version and not the Nintendo ones littering Google.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 3rd October 10:44

[plasticpig]

Jet-Pac by Ultimate Play The Game. More famous for KnightLore and Sabrewulf. Changed their name to Rare and sold it to MS for $370 million.

[Silentz]

"Asteroids" confused me (i think they were huge stone heads or something)

Fairly shite game, but massive on arcades... it was prety fast moving for the time. And it did have catchy and repetitive music.

[Graham]

plasticpig said:

Jet-Pac by Ultimate Play The Game. More famous for KnightLore and Sabrewulf. Changed their name to Rare and sold it to MS for $370 million.

I remember seeing that for the first time at the midland computer fair and being totaly gobsmacked... It might look basic now but back then it was amazing... dont forget when that came out we were all still playing poing pong on those tv consoles !!!!!


The first time i saw Driver on the ps2 was a similar leap

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[RobM77]

Mmm.. I've found some in game footage of Space Harrier and I still haven't heard the music yet. Maybe I have the wrong game?

[FourWheelDrift]

RobM77 said:

Mmm.. I've found some in game footage of Space Harrier and I still haven't heard the music yet. Maybe I have the wrong game?

Are you sure it was on the C64 and not the Amiga version (either yours or a friends) that you remember the music from?

[RobM77]

FourWheelDrift said:

RobM77 said:

Mmm.. I've found some in game footage of Space Harrier and I still haven't heard the music yet. Maybe I have the wrong game?

Are you sure it was on the C64 and not the Amiga version (either yours or a friends) that you remember the music from?

I had both C64 and Amiga so quite possibly. The only thing I can be certain of was that the music I heard last night was from a computer game when I was a kid (so C64 or Amiga).

[FourWheelDrift]

Level 1 music - http://www.digitpress.com/dpsoundz/mid/spaceharrie...

From - http://www.digitpress.com/dpsoundz/soundmus.htm

[RobM77]

FourWheelDrift said:

Level 1 music - http://www.digitpress.com/dpsoundz/mid/spaceharrie...

From - http://www.digitpress.com/dpsoundz/soundmus.htm

Definitely not that Hmm.. I guess I'll never know then! Thanks for clearing that one up. At least I know what the game is called now though!

[FourWheelDrift]

Could be the theme though or another level.

[RobM77]

FourWheelDrift said:

Could be the theme though or another level.

It's a pretty funky little tune!