Urmel's great flight

Urmel's great flight
Studio	Sunflowers
Senior Developer	Armin Grimm (program), Andreas Adamek (graphics), Mark Yates (animation), Alexander Röder (music)
Erstveröffent- lichung	October 1996
platform	Windows
genre	Jump 'n' run
Game mode	1-4 players
control	Keyboard or joystick
system advantages preconditions	Windows 3.1 / Windows 95 Resolution: 640 × 480 pixels / 256 colors RAM: 8 MB Ram
Age rating	USK

Urmels great flight is a Jump 'n' Run - computer game , which the German development studio Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software developed and 1996 for Windows was released.

story

The characters of the game go to the Urmel novels of Max Kruse back, its design seems to the film of the Augsburg Puppet Theater " Urmel from the ice ."

A 3-D animated film sequence shows the player in the opening credits the crash of Urmel's friend: Schusch's shoebill, which was made by the museum director Dr. Zwengelmann is kidnapped. To save him, Urmel builds a pedal-powered helicopter.

Gameplay

The player plays Urmel sitting in the helicopter. The task is to bring Urmel's friends the Waran Wawa, the Penguin Ping, the Pig Pig and Ophelia Inkblot one after the other from one platform to another in the different levels.

The physics here are reminiscent of the arcade game Joust , published in 1982 : Gravitation permanently pulls Urmel towards the earth, which the player has to compensate by pressing a button. In later levels the flight behavior changes temporarily due to wind, whirlpools or gas clouds, or permanently due to magnets or under water. In addition, later levels can only be mastered through the precise use of gliding flight .

The total of 100 levels lead through many scenarios known from the plays “Urmel aus dem Eis” (1969) and “Urmel plays in the castle” (1974): the island of Titiwu, its jungle, the city of Winkelberg, its zoo and its museum (Dino -, Knights and Egypt Department), over the woken, under water, a swamp, the cave and the volcano. The game can only be saved after completing a scenario (every 7–8 levels). A perfect walkthrough takes about three hours.

The game ends with another 3-D animation.

compatibility

The game runs fine on Windows 98 , 2000 and XP . It can be installed under Vista and Windows 7 32-bit , but cannot be played without an emulator. It cannot be installed on 64-bit systems .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on Urmel's big flight cd-roms.de, January 12, 2015
2. ↑ Game manual
3. ↑ Information on Urmel's big flight ign.com, January 12, 2015