LC-Games is certainly no stranger to Indie Retro News, creating brilliant titles such as Bagman Comes Back, Tutankham, Tutankham Returns, Mike Mech, Scout the Stray, Santa's Troubles and our personal favourite Arcade to C64 game of Dig Dug. But another game has just caught our attention and worthy of a mention on IRN, and it's LC-Games latest C64 homage to the 1980's 'Lock'n'Chase ': an arcade game developed by DECO in 1981 which runs perfectly on both PAL and NTSC models of the Commodore 64!
Here's the latest about the gameplay via the website. "The protagonist of the game is a thief named Lupin. The aim of the game is to enter a vault and collect all the coins and, if possible, any other treasure that may appear. The thief must then exit the vault without being apprehended by the Super Ds (cops). The thief can close doors within the maze to temporarily prevent the cops from advancing and allow him to keep his distance from them. Only two doors can be closed at a time. The thief can dodge the police by running through the open side doors. When he exits through one side, he quickly enters on the other side. The Super D cops are called Stiffy, Scaredy, Smarty and Silly".
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Man... I played this game to death on my Intellivision in the early 80s. This looks fantastic. Good to see it on the C64.
ReplyDeleteReally good port. Glad to see these games you can't buy anywhere redone or ported to home computer systems. Cops and Robbers themed Pac-Man is the direction this old arcade game took. Atari 5200 has a homebrew clone called Rob 'n' Banks. This looks more like the arcade.
ReplyDeleteThanks God emulation exists.
DeleteI played this on my Atari 2600 a lot!
ReplyDeleteConversion looks good, the game itself is 150th rip-off of Pac man though.
ReplyDeleteAgreed
DeleteConstant releases from LC-games that rock!
ReplyDeleteImpressive arcade action game! Also played it on the Intellivision as a kid. This game is so better and more fun than Pac Man. Fantastic to have on the C64!
ReplyDeleteThe Intellivision version is top notch. Wouldn’t mind seeing this on the Atari 8-bit. The sound would be amazing too.
ReplyDeleteReally cool game, I just don't like one thing: When Lupine moves vertically, he looks left and right with his eyes. That looks silly. It would be better if he always looked in the direction he was going.
ReplyDeleteI would imagine that's because this is trying to be true to the original 1981 arcade version.
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