Trying to find the name of late 80's / early 90's game

DontYaThink

Hi All,
Have been trying to find out what game this is for years and hoping someone might know what I'm talking about!!

It was a single screen, platform game, and was for either the Commadore 64 or Atari!

I know that I had it around the time of Rainbow Island but not sure what year it was.

Basically, the character is a sort of fat/roundish man who wears a purple cape and black eye mask thing. Same sort of lay out as Bubble Bobble, but not that, nor was it Bomb Jack, which is also similar.
Baddies fall out of the sky - Think they were like hot air balloons with faces in the baskets or something like that, and you had to collect fruit.

I don't even know what the objective was, although they rarely had one in those days!

This is driving me absolutely mad! I can't find it anywhere on the net and nobody knows what I'm talking about. I'm beginning to doubt if it even existed at this stage!

Sorry if the description in a bit vague... that's all I've got!

Hopefully someone can shed some light!!

Thanks in advance!!

jhegarty

Any chance it was Pang ?

DontYaThink

No not Pang, got excited there for a second thanks anyway!!

s8n

Retr0gamer is your man for this query

MontgomeryClift

Was it Blobber, for the Commodore 64?

Retr0gamer

I was going to say Bombjacks but you said it wasn't. I'm racking my brains here because it seems to be familiar. All I'm getting is the original bomberman which is wrong.

Retr0gamer

Hold on one minute, I ****ing know this!

It's a Seymour game!

The exact game is in one of the retrogamer magazines I have. I'll look it up now.

Retr0gamer

Does Seymour Saves the Planet ring any bells?

horgan_p

thank you , that was driving me crazy after reading it , wasnt there a number of seymour games that were basically "homages " of other games ?

Professey Chin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Does Seymour Saves the Planet ring any bells?

And the man lives up to his name with slightly disturbing accuracy & efficiency:eek:

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Does Seymour Saves the Planet ring any bells?

Fair play! I was convinced he had just been playing Bomb Jack after too many pints or something.

Retr0gamer

I'm wasted on my chemistry phd

There were a good few seymour and super seymour games released that were budget rip offs of other games. Some of them were quite good though and cheap. If it isn't saves the planet it could be another super seymour game.

Professey Chin

o1s1n wrote: »

Fair play! I was convinced he had just been playing Bomb Jack after too many pints or something.

I used to be addicted to that on my atari ST

Gummy Panda

Okay i got one for Retro.

Its an Amstrad game, where you look like you are playing a Rat or a mouse thats a thief. Its a platform with different traps. The first level looks like a warehouse. It started right to left.

I can't remember whether the view was iosmetric or not.

Professey Chin

I think we should start an Ask Retr0 sticky for all these type of questions :pac:

Retr0gamer

I'm not bigged up on amstrad games I'll try my best.

Retr0gamer

All I'm getting is peter pack rat

Gummy Panda

Retr0gamer wrote: »

All I'm getting is peter pack rat

Nope not it.

I'll never remember this game's name

Professey Chin

Basil the Great Mouse Detective by any chance?
1st level of that was a warehouse I think

DontYaThink

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Does Seymour Saves the Planet ring any bells?

Oh my god you are a ****ing GENIOUS!! That's it! Man that has been wrecking my head for years! Have been through all the websites but couldn't find it!

Thanks you so much

KesMonkey

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Its an Amstrad game, where you look like you are playing a Rat or a mouse thats a thief. Its a platform with different traps. The first level looks like a warehouse. It started right to left.

That sounds like one of the "Monty" games, maybe "Monty on the Run".

Gummy Panda

KesMonkey wrote: »

That sounds like one of the "Monty" games, maybe "Monty on the Run".

Thats it!!!!

Thank you

Retr0gamer

Ah for jaysus sake Gummy! I thought it was a really obscure game. Everyone knows the monty games, I never even thought of them because of that

KesMonkey

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Thats it!!!!

Thank you

No problem. As I'm sure you now realise, monty was a mole. That may have helped throw Retr0gamer off the scent.

CrinkElite

Hey leds, anyone remember a C64 game where you flew a little pod/flying machine up through a series of rectangular rooms that were stacked on top of each other in the shape of a huge pyramid.
each room had two exits which gave you the freedom to choose your path to the pyramid's apex. There was a set amount of (very weird) enemies in each room which had to be dispatched before you ascended to the next level of the pyramid.

I'm not sure but It may have come free with the "Commodore Format" magazine.
myself and my brother played the SH!T out of it back in the day.

McDermotX

CrinkElite wrote: »

Hey leds, anyone remember a C64 game where you flew a little pod/flying machine up through a series of rectangular rooms that were stacked on top of each other in the shape of a huge pyramid.
each room had two exits which gave you the freedom to choose your path to the pyramid's apex. There was a set amount of (very weird) enemies in each room which had to be dispatched before you ascended to the next level of the pyramid.

I'm not sure but It may have come free with the "Commodore Format" magazine.
myself and my brother played the SH!T out of it back in the day.

Pyramid



Played it back in the old days....our one came on a multi-game tape thing with the likes of Handicap Golf etc etc

CrinkElite

You legend! I'll have to get the brother round later for a trip down memory lane.