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Bagitman Commodore 64 Aardvark Action Software (Unknown) (Unknown) GTi This was the first C64 game I ever played. I played it with a friend of mine (an old soccer mate - where are you?!). He turbo-taped the game and there it was: doedoedoeoe doedoedoe doeoeoeo. And so on. Man, that sound. I was amazed. I had/have a Spectrum (beep beep) and although I still play on it I then forced my parents to buy a C64. The C64 was unbeatable in the sound department. In this game you are a prisoner working in a coalmine where you have to collect all the bags of gold and put them in your wheelbarrow. Not an easy task. There are guards chasing you and there is a time limit for each bag of gold. The faster you put a bag in the wheelbarrow the higher your bonus points. But when carrying a bag your movement is slower, so watch out for the guards! You can temporarily put the guards out by dropping your goldbag on their heads or by using a pickaxe (ouch!) on them. They must have a hard head because after a while they continue to chase you. The 3 split-screens are connected to each other via mine shafts so you don't have to take all the gold bags on the first screen to continue. To go faster in-between you can take a barrow. The character animation is minimum (your character walks like a German beer dancer) but the backdrops are very "mineish" and recognisable. Thanks to MAME I discovered that this game was based on an arcade version which plays exactly the same. I still didn't get all the bags so I don't know how it ends. |
 Pulled out all the stops here then ...   Run man, run! Don't dance ...  ... or fall down a mineshaft ... |
 Graphics: 70%  |
Sound: 85% |
Gameplay: 75% |
Overall: 76% |
| Minimum animation but colourful backdrop theme. | Help. Get that music out of my head!!! The sounds effects are great too. | A typical arcade platformer. Sometimes it can be frustrating if your character is being chased and he doesn't seem to move up a ladder. There's also some strategy and planning to be done here. | The best little arcade platformer on the C64. Before publishers needed to have licences that is. |
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