Creatures, Foxx Fights Back
This was on my second ever C64 magazine, an issue of Zzap! 64 in 1990:
http://amr.abime.net/issue_1298
The Creatures demo blew me away - the animation, graphics, richly layered music, and above all the atmosphere and humour - the particular level was a 'puzzle' game but it didn't feel like one. I became a huge fan of the Creatures games because of this demo!
Foxx Fights Back was brilliant too - if a little hard to control, it was very hard to jump between islands - and typical of some of the zany concepts bandied around on the C64 and Spectrum in the 80s. You were a fox collecting chickens and other items to take back to the wife - but all while being pursued by hounds on bikes! Don't worry though - you have a gun... only problem with this game is that I suspect it didn't have a conclusion and was therefore impossible to complete. Kept me amused though!
Hovver Bovver
This popped up on a Commodore Format covertape (I think) once the game had been around for a while - but I loved the quirky British eccentricity of the type you'd also see in LLamasoft games and the like.
Maze Mania
Quite a late one (possibly), again from Commodore Format - a brilliant puzzle game where you'd wander around a maze changing the colour of the floor tiles until they'd all switched from one shade to another - though of course it's never quite that simple...
Sensitive
This was a PD game in which you had to make your way from a tile on one side of the screen to a tile on the other, touching every tile on the way only once (or in some instances twice) to make them all disappear. Very tricky, very addictive...
...so, over to you - what covertape memories do you have, and what games/series/genres did they lead you to?
