Your thoughts on...Wriggler
Hi guys, as I'm planning a feature about the making of Wriggler, I wondered what everyone's memories and thoughts of the game were. It was the only release by Romantic Robot, more famous of course for the Multiface 1 et al.
Wriggler
I'm quite impressed someone mapped it!
Wriggler
I'm quite impressed someone mapped it!
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I still don't know what i'm supposed to be doing though!
Having said that, I used to like exploring the map, & loved the bright graphics and animation and the fact there were lots of sections overground and underground.
At the time I thought it was a very impressive and surprising release from, as mentioned, a company known mainly for its more serious utilities & hardware.
but it was marketed in with other items.. so didn't really stand out,
edit: ok scratch that, it was 75, I think I mixed it up with Stop The Express, another obscure game. However its inclusion still seemed a bit bizarre & esoteric.
very playable and funny, high map and, also inexplicably, funny loading screen & inlay.
Stop the express is a bona fide classic!
Nice big graphics?
However, since I was very young when I played it, the feeling of the large map was kind of mystical and magical, and the large spiders were scary.. :smile:
That's Stuart Campbell for you. He wouldn't just reel of a list of a hundred obvious classics without trying to sneak few oddball games in there.
Anyway, Wriggler is obviously just a twist on the old huge multi-screen maze games, such as Sabre Wulf, but with its own distinctive personality; loved the nicely animated graphics and the bold use of colour. That said, the map is ridiculously convoluted and once the novelty wears off, it's a serious grind. I did like the music on the reverse of the tape though.
As for Stop The Express, come on, it's a blooming masterpiece; nothing else plays even remotely like it, and it looks fabulous into the bargain.
That bony spider was one of the scaries baddies on the Speccy though!
Oh and there are also two versions of the game out there, one easier than the other. The easier one is best avoided as it isn't a challenge in the slightest.
Wriggler is an all time classic spectrum game.
Which version is on the wos archive?
And yes, that spider was scary eeekkk!
Really? Hmm, that's interesting. Will have to check that....
I think I had my copy on some Game Compilation, perhaps a 10-pack of some kind.
A lot of games from the top 100 turned up on a YS cover tape not long after. Hmmm...
It was on the famous Beau-jolly computer hits compilation.
The `B` side of the original cassette had Romantic Robot music all through it
Ah, that is correct, this is the one.
Some good stuff there: Skool Daze, Harrier Attack, Wriggler, Chuckie Egg and since I played some text adventures I also liked Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle.
but then that's compilations for you!
Also Braxx Bluff. It looked very good, but I never understood how to even land..
Meh. Overlords is a brilliant game, it just needs two players with the additional problem of them both wanting to learn a moderately complex strategy game. Such an occurrence was probably rare in the market Beau Jolly was pitching to, alas.