Why Toy Bizarre never came out for the 5200

[+Allan]

I was just playing this game on my c64 emulator and realized right away why they announced it but never came out with it on the 5200. It's an obvious rip-off of Mario Brothers. It's not as good either. There are a lot of better games for the c64 that would be great on the 5200 anyways.

 

Allan

[Agent X]

I enjoyed Toy Bizarre quite a bit on the Commodore 64. Sure, it's obviously inspired by Mario Bros., but there are enough differences in the gameplay mechanics to give it its own distinctive appeal.

[Tempest]

Toy Bizzare didn't come out for the 5200 because it was a late Activision release (84 I think), and the 5200 was pretty much dead at that point. Same reason Pastfinder never made it to the 5200.

 

Tempest

[LiquidPenguin]

This may sound like a ridiculus question, but how the heck do you get past the intro screen to Toy Bizarre? I'm using CCS64 and I think I have everything mapped correctly. At least, it appears that way.

 

Mind you, this is the first time I've actually managed to get this far using a C64 emulator. I tried once a long time ago but had no success due to some problematic hardware. Now the hardware has changed so I guess I managed to get the emulator working.

 

I'll check out some other games and see what happens.

[Mayhem]

F1 I think... it's been a while since I played it