Attack of the Muntant Camels

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The plot: evil aliens have invaded the peaceful world of Ungulonia. After an epic struggle they have been beaten back by the Ungulonian Limestone Peapods, and the occupied territory reduced to a small desert continent. But they have a cunning plan - they will have their revenge on the Ungulonians, thanks to their cybernetic, 150 foot high, heavily-armed camels. Nothing can withstand this devastating assault. Nothing... except you, of course.</div> <bR> <div> As fans of Jeff Minter have come to expect, AMC boasts an addictive and frenetic gameplay wrapped in a wacky and unique sense of humor that only Minter can provide. The game, in the designer's own words, "...was loosely inspired by the Walker sequence in Star Wars. The camels are not particularly well-drawn, and in fact look more like two fat men in a pantomime camel suit than proper camels. Also, note that although the cover artwork has bactrian (2-humped) camels, in the actual game the beasts are single-humped dromedaries."</div> <bR> <div> The gameplay is as simple as it can get. You start on the far right of the horizontally-scrolling map, with the camels on the left, marching relentlessly towards the right-hand end. Your mission is to disable the camels' cybernetic implants by shooting them, to free the captive dromedaries, who afterwards will gallop happily towards the safety of your base.</div> <bR> <div> Of course, as every die-hard fan of Minter can tell you, the game is not really that simple. The camels have huge firepower, and they attack in hordes. Along with the expected camels, you'll also find yourself fending off the incoming goats, lizards, technicolour cows, goldfish, and god-only-knows what else. A new type of enemy is introduced on almost every new level, so after a while the whole screen becomes very crowded with bad guys. It won't be long before you find yourself severely outnumbered - and having fun. Every once in a while, a brief interlude appears where you have to dodge ICBMs for ten seconds to win an extra life.</div> <bR> <div> This PC remake, as we can expect from RetroSpec meistros John Dow and John Blythe, is superb. The original game's addiction is left intact and enhanced with bright, colorful graphics. Sound effects are appropriately loud, with the usual explosions and high-pitched laser noises, and the excellent music is perfectly suited to retro gaming. Overall, if you enjoy mindless shooting games, this reincarnation of Yak's classic is simply a must-have - and you will find yourself addicted to its simple charm before long. Two thumbs up, way up!</div> <bR> <div> <B>Attack of the Muntant Camels 2</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="9b8f3b60.png" border=0 width="243" height="182" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="9baf0b40.png" border=0 width="240" height="180" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Lamatron 2112</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="9b1dcaa0.png" border=0 width="220" height="170" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">      </div> <div> Back in the heyday of Commodore 64, Jeff Minter (of Ozark Software) was a household name for fun and addictive action games. As in most other games he designed, Llamatron puts you in control of a llama (Minter's favorite animal) who must rescue his fellow llama while shooting everything else in sight. Llamatron: 2112 is a an excellent remake of this action classic.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Revenge of the Muntant Camels</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="9b273aa0.png" border=0 width="115" height="170" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  <IMG SRC="9b3dcaa0.png" border=0 width="220" height="170" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> Revenge of the Mutant Camels is a great PC remake of classic Commodore 64/Spectrum game of the same name, released as shareware by the author in 1994 but has since been released into the public domain. Comments from the man Jeff "Yak" Minter himself: "Revenge of the Mutant Camels is probably the best known of the Mutant Camels series. I was feeling well guilty about the fact that the camels got shot up in AMC, as camels are in fact llovely beasties, so I made them the heroes of this game. At the time, people were freaking out about the fact that Manic Miner had 20 levels, which seemed like a huge amount back then - so I decided to oneup MM and put 42 levels into this game. I could have put more but 42 seemed like a decent number of levels, especially as 42 is the answer to life, the Universe and everything.</div> <bR> <div> RMC was also technically significant, as it was one of the first UK C64 games to figure out how to use raster interrupts and the scroll registers to make a smoothly-scrolling zone on the screen. It was also one of the first games to use the Fast Load system - at the show where it was launched there was much amazement as we demonstrated the game loading in a mere 1.5 minutes instead of the 13-odd minutes it would have taken under Commodore's execrably-slow system. Commodore were always great at making things load slowly - in fact games could load faster off the so-called 'turbo' tapes than off a stock Commodore floppy! We held a hi-score competition for RMC on the day of launch, and took the winner off on the Concorde for a day-trip, to ride a real camel around the Pyramids. That was a lot of fun."</div> <bR> <div> If you have played Attack of the Mutant Camels before (it is also on this site), you know what to expect here: plenty of weird and wacky enemies, addictive nonstop gameplay, and a unique brand of Yak humor that encompasses flying camels, crazy llamas that run at you on two hind legs, and more. The game is a lot of fun, but it is extremely challenging. If you enjoy arcade games in general, this highly underrated classic from one of the true pioneers in the genre is a must-play. Two thumbs up!</div> <bR> <div> <B>Revenge of the Muntant Camels 2</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="9bbbe2c0.png" border=0 width="190" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>