Spooks
Halloween themed arcade action platformer for the TRS-80 Color Computer.
The spooks have stolen all the sweets!
It's up to you to venture into the haunted castle and take them all back.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- TRS-80 Color Computer 1,2 or 3 (or emulator)
- At least 32k of RAM
- Disk drive
- Joystick
LOADING THE GAME
Insert the game disk into drive 0. At the BASIC prompt type:
LOADM"SPOOKS" EXEC
EMULATORS
If you don't have real hardware there are various TRS-80 CoCo emulators available such as VCC (Windows), XRoar (Windows, Linux, OS X) or MAME (Windows, Linux, OS X).
HOW TO PLAY
Avoid the spooks and collect all the sugary treats to proceed to the next level. There are 6 different level layouts that will loop through 3 times with increasing difficulty. Complete all of them to win the game.
COMBO
After you've picked up your first treat you will see a special flashing treat. Collect successive special treats to increase your combo. But beware, if you pick up a regular treat your combo will reset.
TIME BONUS
In the top right of the game screen you will see a BONUS count down. When you finish a level any remaining bonus will be added to your score.
NEW LIFE
You will gain a new life for every 20,000 points earned.
Download
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I found out about this game from the Amigos CoCo show and donated a few dollars at their recommendation. Great game! I hope you keep working on it and improving it.
Game looks cool, but it locks up after a few seconds on my 64k CoCo 2. I'm using a Backbit cartridge, perhaps that's the reason?
Now this is nice! This would have been right up there with my favourites (e.g. Tom Mix) had it been released “in the day.” Makes my heart warm.
A note that I first tried this on a real CoCo 1 and it works perfectly apart from a constant buzzing during gameplay. Sounds like the speaker is being pulsed. No such issue running on an emulator.
This “buzzing” on hardware has been confirmed by others. Any chance this could be looked into - probably a simple fix I imagine (or would hope).
This is great stuff. I'm a Donkey Kong guy from way back..I own the arcade machine...and I know great platform control, and this has it. Jumping on and off ladders is spot on. I'd LOVE to see you take the bones of this game and really expand it. This game is great fun...it's instantly top tier on CoCo platformers. We're talking about it on a future CoCo Show and i'm really surprised and stoked at what you have done here. PLEASE, keep this level of platforming coming to the CoCo.
Really nice smooth animation, cool game! I'll definitely want this for my CoCo SDC
Fun game! The controls feel responsive, and I like how it harkens back to retro games while not being quite as tough. The animations are charming, too, especially the player character's smooth walking animation. Great job!
You always bring the coolest little morsels of amazing good times, neat!
tHIS IS SO FUN! 044570 Is my highscore so far!
Liked the design! I want to try it but I couldn't yet.
Looks amazing... (and eerily like an Apple ][ game)... would love to see a GIF or a video!