Planet Bob - Playing Motos (C64)

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Hello Moto!

 

Er, I mean Motos...

 

 

This C64 release is a bit of an oddball. You see, it is an officially licensed Arcade conversion from Namco, yet it came from Mastertronic - a low budget tape label. Well, I don't know what the licensing fee actually was, but it definitely feels odd...

 

Another mystery is that Namco never put out a NES version of it, since they converted almost everything they had to the NES, even games as old as Dig Dug, Galaga or Pac-Man...

 

Anyway, the C64 version is a nice little fun game. Your mission is very simple: You're sitting on a platform and have to push every other being on there down from it.

 

There's two occasional extras worth collecting: Power pills making you stronger and wings enabling you to jump. The enemies get gradually stronger and nastier while playing, until after 28 levels it just loops.

 

Worth a look if you have an hour to kill I'd say

 

Some future day the Playing series may see another Namco game in the form of "Pac-Land", but first it'll continue with something else...

 

Greetings,

Manuel

 

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