"Toolbox" Game Creator for Commodore?

Thargor

Does anyone remember these? They were yellow cassettes for C64 and Im 90% sure the brand name was Toolbox. There was an art app, a music maker app and a couple of others but the one Im interested in is the game creator, you could design an entire scrolling shooter with this game, it was great for its time, you could draw all the backgrounds, textures, sprites etc and it came with 4 premade games, there was a sci-fi one, a western one, and 2 others I cant remember. You could edit any of the sprites or sound effects in any of these games and they were 2 player so my brother and I had hours of fun with them.

Funny thing is, nobody I ask has ever heard of them, I dont see anything online and Ive never come across them in a magazine, website or rom pack even when it claims to be every c64 game ever made, does anyone know what Im talking about?

And it wasn't the Games Creator:

http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/details.php%3FID%3D1018

valleyoftheunos

I remember it well although my experience was altogether more frustrating. I recall spending hours editing sprites and changing things but never getting it to actually work in the game. I also only ever got the western to load once. It was pretty cool stuff at the time though.

Thargor

Oh really? I dont think its just rose tinted nostalgia on my part, we used to put a lot of work into it, drawing ships from Star Trek in the sci-fi one, turning the cowboys into giant penises that shot white blobs in the Western one

It was a great app but I cant find the rom of it anywhere.

LoGiE

I think it's SEUCK your thinking off i remember it well!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot%27Em-Up_Construction_Kit

Thargor

Yeah, looks like thats the one, thanks LoGIE, I even had it in my roms folder all this time, Toolbox must have just been some cash-in repackaging that they did, nice one.

demanufactured

Had them , they came with the c64 Light fantastic pack

Thargor

Thats the exact package we got one Xmas alright, all the contents are shown here:

http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Commodore/cbmlf/index.php

Didn't realise SEUCK was printed on the front cover though



That Batman game was awesome aswell.

strangeloop

seuck! I spent hours making a games on this. Sent my game to zzap64...never got published.:(

Jip

Thargor wrote: »

Thats the exact package we got one Xmas alright, all the contents are shown here:

There's a flashback, that's the package I got myself one year. I can smell the packaging now.

demanufactured

Thargor wrote: »

Thats the exact package we got one Xmas alright, all the contents are shown here:

http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Commodore/cbmlf/index.php

Didn't realise SEUCK was printed on the front cover though



That Batman game was awesome aswell.

"sheds a tear"
Ah my childhood....christmas 88 i think