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Krazy Kong by C*Tech

Rev. Stuart CampbellRev. Stuart Campbell
edited February 2011 in Games
I wrote a piece about this 1982 classic this week:

http://wosblog.podgamer.com/2011/02/10/the-worst-videogame-ever-made/

but someone in the comments directed me to a YouTube video that showed what seemed to be a significantly different version of the game, with a preloader describing both 16K and 48K versions and not playing the same as the version I've got (which is the only one available on WOS).

Does anyone know where the version depicted in this video might be found?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmKRtFlCmGg
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Comments

  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited February 2011
    It's not the only one on WoS. The version on the video, with the separate 16k & 48k games, is from the
    Krazy Kong + Panic Island compilation tape.
  • Rev. Stuart CampbellRev. Stuart Campbell
    edited February 2011
    Battle Bunny wrote: »
    It's not the only one on WoS. The version on the video, with the separate 16k & 48k games, is from the
    Krazy Kong + Panic Island compilation tape.

    Aha! That's the one. Cheers!
  • Rev. Stuart CampbellRev. Stuart Campbell
    edited February 2011
    How do you play Panic Island, btw?
  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited February 2011
    Rev. Stuart Campbell wrote: »
    How do you play Panic Island, btw?

    Errmmm ... Load the game and follow the instructions which are displayed at the start? (It's at the end of the tape; the controls are 5-6-7-8.) After laughing at the atrocious spelling & punctuation, and the instructions being displayed before the UDGs have been defined, which is typical of the generally careless programming, the game lives up to the ensuing low expectations. With a bit more care - maybe half an hour's work - it might have achieved the quality of a poor type-in program. A very slap-dash effort to put on a commercial tape.

    C-Tech's customer relations left something to be desired as well. After the Krazy Kong furore reported in a C&VG Great Software Disasters article, their sales director was quoted as saying: "If you print any letters [of complaint] you will never get any advertising from us again." As it was, they'd never placed any Spectrum games adverts in C&VG anyway, so it was rather a hollow threat.
  • Rev. Stuart CampbellRev. Stuart Campbell
    edited February 2011
    Battle Bunny wrote: »
    Errmmm ... Load the game

    Yeah, that's the tricky bit. I have the TZX and I can see (in the cassette viewer) a file called "PANIC" at the end of it, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to actually run it. I tried breaking into the Krazy Kong loader and typing LOAD "PANIC", but that did no good.
  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited February 2011
    LOAD "Panic", or else position the tape browser at the Panic program entry and LOAD "". There are several "Stop the Tape" blocks in the TZX, so if LOAD "Panic" is used and the tape browser isn't positioned at that program then the PLAY button will have to be pressed each time a STOP is encountered, until the Panic file is found. LOAD "PANIC" won't work as the case of the letters is wrong; if a name is entered in "" it has to be a case-sensitive match with the file name.
  • VanamondeVanamonde
    edited February 2011
    Even worse than this one:

    http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Killer+Knight$&pub=^Phipps+Associates$
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