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Fully
titled "Hagar The Horrible",
the conversion of the popular comic strip character was pretty
well done on the C64. Sure, it wasn't the best ever platformer
on the C64, but a good reasonable effort and a playable one at
that.
You
had to control Hagar over a series of levels over different islands
in some classic platform action. Graphics were fairly standard,
and the sounds were ok, but the game played well and deserved
the reasonable grades it recieved.
Sadly,
Hagar was never to make it to UK shores as planned.. Even though
the game was publicised in the UK, got reviewed and even had a
demo put on Commodore Format's Powerpack,
the UK never saw the game in the shops.
It
seems that sadly the UK distribution fell through, and so it only
got released in other european countries. Floating around the
net was the foreign version, but no UK version.
That
was until Rasmus recently released *everything*
there was of Hagar The Horrible, including the previously unseen
English version, discovered originally for Gamebase 64.
So
the game was finally found, but sadly never quite saw the UK release
that it deserved, a shame really...
Case
closed...maybe more from Rasmus soon on this game...
Frank.
(Additional
source credits - Gamebase 64)
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