Goodbye, Monty
| Goodbye, Monty | |
|---|---|
| Studio | Gremlin Graphics |
| Publisher | Gremlin Graphics |
| Senior Developer | Peter M. Harrap, Shaun Hollingworth |
| composer | Rob Hubbard , Ben Daglish |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1987 |
| platform | Amstrad CPC , Commodore 16 , Commodore 64 , Commodore Plus4 , MSX , ZX Spectrum |
| genre | Jump 'n' run |
| control | Joystick , keyboard |
| medium | Cassette , floppy disk |
| language | English |
Goodbye Monty is a Jump 'n' Run video game in side view ( Platformer ) , the 1987 by Gremlin Graphics has been developed and marketed for the then current 8-bit home computer systems. It is the fourth installment in the Monty Mole game series. Although the game was developed in Great Britain, it has a German name and was largely marketed internationally under this name. Only in France was the title changed to Au Revoir Monty .
action
The player takes on the role of Monty Mole, a former miner who is on the run from the police after a prison break. Starting in Gibraltar , Monty Mole travels across Europe and collects money in the process. The aim of the game is, after traveling through u. a. France, Germany and Italy have collected enough money to buy the fictional Greek island of “Montos” to be able to retire there. In typical platformer fashion, the player must run and jump through numerous rooms while avoiding enemies. In addition, you have to collect banknotes and solve some puzzles.
technology
The game is, typical for platformer of this time, divided into individual screen-sized rooms, which are shown in side view. The player moves the character through these rooms, collects objects, dodges monsters and tries to reach exits that lead to other rooms. The rooms are interconnected to form a simple labyrinth and, accumulated as a two-dimensional map, represent a map of Europe. Each room symbolizes a city, which is named in the lower part of the screen. There are a total of 80 rooms (thematically divided by country) and 64 banknotes to be collected. At certain points in the game, certain items are required in order to progress. The title of the game is a reference to the popular British TV series Goodbye, Pet in the 1980s . The game designer, Peter Harrap, left his employer Gremlin Graphics after the game was finished in an argument. The music for Auf Wiedersehen Monty was composed by Rob Hubbard and Ben Daglish , two of the most distinguished computer musicians of the home computer era.
reception
Goodbye Monty is considered to be one of the better platformer of his time. In the readers' choice of Crash Magazine in 1987, the game was named the winner in the "Platform Game" category. In 1993, it was voted 57th in the readers' poll for the Official Game Top 100 Of All Time by Your Sinclair magazine . Computer and Video Games found the game to be "hugely challenging, addicting and entertaining". Zzap! however, criticized the game's lack of willingness to innovate and the obscure puzzles.
- Commodore16.com: 8/10
- Computer and Video Games: 8.5 / 10
- Your Sinclair: 9/10
- Zzap !: 46%
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Peter Harrap on C64.com
- ^ The 1987 Crash Readers' Awards
- ↑ The Official Game Top 100 Of All Time (Your Sinclair)
- ↑ a b Computer and Video Games 067, May 1987, available online
- ↑ a b Zzap! # 026, June 1987, available online
- ↑ Review on Commodore16.com
- ↑ Your Sinclair, June 1987, available online ( memento of the original from June 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
