C64 Game Memories - Revisited 30+ Years later : Spyhunter

in retro •  7 years ago 

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Spyhunter was a much loved arcade machine released by Bally Midway but I confess straight away to never playing the actual Spyhunter, only the port to the C64 upon its release.

The game was a top down vertical scroller where you control a car (and also a boat) which was armed with guns, smoke to lay a smokescreen and oil. I never lasted long at this game and never truly understood what the end goal was? Points? High Score?

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Your cars travels upwards on the screen in a smooth vertical scroll and must avoid other cars which will attempt to shoot you or knock you off the road. Shooting is easy, right? But what about those cars behind you? That's where you use your oil to make your enemies crash. You can also attempt to ram other traffic off road but in my very average ability at this game 50% of the time this resulted in me missing the car I was trying to ram and crashing my own car!

Once you lasted a little while, you then had to drive up the back of the ramp onto a truck which would take you to the next level of the game. Again, probably just me but the number of times I shot the truck in panic was ridiculous!

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I recently tried the game again on an emulator, and its fun for 5 minutes but I still suffer from not being any good at it. Why Spyhunter lives in the memory for me is the superb music from Henry Mancini. Apparently this is the theme from Peter Gunn but is before my time and I remember it from the Blues Brothers.

Spyhunter is not bad, but not sure of its ranking in some peoples top 10 list. I put that down to me not being very good at it, which i'm sure is the reason for a lot of peoples favourites anyway.

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play many hours to that game back in the 80's

The Peter Gunn TV series ran in the late 50s and early 60s which I never saw but now I want to after reading this awesome post!

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