Monty On The Run - Amstrad CPC (1/2)

Got this back in the day on a Amtix collection of games and it was pure nightmare. I got totally stuck on screen 2, lol. Just kept trying to jump over the teapot to get on the clowd. When i did get past screen 2 i didnt pick up the icescreams (or are they cakes?) and you must pick em all up to get further. The main obstacle was that i didnt know what 5 items to pick at the main screen either. So i was doomed one way or the other. Someone was nice to finally post the right 5 items (no. 2, 4, 12, 13 & 16) and a nice poke for lives. As you may have noticed i cheated a bit in this video and gave myself 15 lives because usually the normal 5 lives are WAY to few. A bit surpriced that i only managed to die twice, because when i was praticing i used at least a good 10+ lives. Those stompers are totally random usually and the car stage usually also takes way more lives. Also down below in "das boot" there is a stomper+dark hand that alway seem to kill me multiple times. Anyways, its good that you dont need to pick up the coins, especially as one of them is impossible to get (100+ attempts so it must be a dud/programming error). Anyway, a nice colourfull game with the classic tune. Hint about lasers: first laser you can pass when its green, second one ("help") can be passed when its light blue and the third one in the ship is off when its white.

By Gremlin 1986

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• retro
• game
• amstrad
• cpc
• commodore
• spectrum

[Slamy1000]

I think I've got a buggy version of this game.

It says I have I5 lives.

After I0 comes H9.

It's impossible to get the "Game Over" Screen.

Could you tell me where you got yours ?

[CholoCPC]

@Slamy1000 As explained in the in video notes i poked myself 15 lives to make sure to be able to finish the game. Ended up only using 2 lives tho (being freakishly lucky too). Still to a unexperienced player even 255 lives will not be enough lives as there are way to many traps, one way paths and random deaths to be had ;D Got my version fra cpc-power dut kum i think.

[Slamy1000]

@CholoCPC

Wow, I never knew this website. Thank you !!

I also thought that only a few games where released on tape on that machine :-D

I'm relatively new to the cpc and bought myself a 6128 to compare it to my c64.

[CholoCPC]

@Slamy1000 Indeed, most budget games probably only had a tape version, but all full priced game had a 3" disc version too. Those 3" discs where expensive tho so disc games didnt sell well so if you go on a site like ebay then you notice its pretty much only tapes for sale & the few disc games sell for high prices. If you need help with your 6128 you can try going to CPCWIKI dut EU & visit the forum. Youll find all new games in there too. I got a C64 as well, had to see what it was all about.

[alex76gr]

It looks and sounds very cool!

Nice one!

[CholoCPC]

@alex76gr Thanks, yes it may look at bit "oldstyle" but its got a great spree of happy colours used. Nice to see a mode 0 conversion of the game. I had a look at the c64 and spectrum versions and i prefer this version playability. C64 may have faster gameplay and spectrum may have more details (like more flowers) but amstrad has the real challenge. Amstrad version is the only one that dosnt have an animated ending tho.

[VincentGreece]

I hated this game, but i didnt have anything else.

[CholoCPC]

@khisanth75 yeah great intense tune ;)

[CholoCPC]

@cpc4eva Donno if the badly placed coins can be called a but tho. But bad game design at least. First part of the game has quite well designed maps, but later on (especially the "tree stumb" is quite unforgiving (if you fall off the rope you enter a death-loop and loose all your lives). Game should have had at least 15-20 lives like Spikey Harold (at least that programmer knew to keep things "fair" compared to the difficulty).

[CholoCPC]

@cpc4eva definately to hard, thats for sure .. only thing that kept me going was pure spite ;D Not only is there the odd 5 items you must get from the main menu, but there is also a lot of items that need to be collected ingame (or youll end up in a deathtrap). The only real bug ive noticed is if your char gets "scratched" it will leave a smal graphics trail (like at 08:06). Then there are the "impossible to get" coins at 05:16 (top one) and 00:22 (part 2).

[cpc4eva]

i was of the pinion this game was way too hard and bugged....?