Help with remembering a C64 game!

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Triggered by this thread, I was getting set to seek out a link and post about one of my favourite video game intros when I was a kid, only to discover I’ve long since forgotten the name. :smack:

So, here’s what I have:

For the time, I thought it had a pretty cool beginning. Granted, this is through the eyes of a 12-13 year old tomboy gamer. The music was pretty awesome, too - while I can remember the tune. I’m not sure how to describe it…

During the intro, we see the streets of a destroyed city, and a silhouette of a mother pushing a baby carriage across the screen appears. They stop in the middle of the screen, and long tentacles reach out of the pram - this baby is a mutant! The mother faints.

The actual game I don’t recall being all that entertaining, however, at the time, I considered the load time for the intro alone to be totally worth it. :smiley: Anyway, if I remember correctly, it was a first-person perspective, and you were inside of some sort of robot/computer suit, probably protecting you from all the radioactivity out there in the recently-nuked world. You could control these weird arms on the outside to interact with certain things. You went from room to room, figuring things out.

The rest is lost to me. The unfortunate thing is, as good as I usually am with names, the name written on the disk was “The President is Missing”, which was a totally different game by Cosmi. My father had a habit of copying games from his buddies over games he didn’t care for if he had no spare floppies around. ARGH!

Scanning lists and screenshots of many, many old C64 games, nothing rang a bell. I’m thinking if I heard the name, it would all come rushing back, since I remember referring to it for a while as “The President Is Missing” until my father pointed out that that was not the name of the game at all. I had thought that maybe the title I saw on the intro screen was like a sub/alternate title until I was corrected, and then I began referring to it by the proper name.

BUT WHAT WAS IT?! YARGGH! Help me!

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Delta Man

I have a manual in front of me and am 100% sure. Delta Man

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THANK YOU! I owe you a drink of your choice, if you’re ever in Seattle.

DELTA MAN! Just DLed for the emulator… it’s still a pretty cool beginning, even after all these years. :cool:

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…yet more evidence SDMB is the greatest thing ever invented by humankind.

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As if by this point there was any remaining doubt.
Though I was a major Commodore head (and, um, hacker), I’ve never played this game. I can sing the M.U.L.E. and Jumpman songs, I can repeat all the Impossible Mission dialogue, and I remember the map of Bungeling Bay, but Delta Man? A big blank. Sigh.

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Yeah. I was a big C64 fanboy and had like 500 games. I remember all the games you mentioned but I’d never heard of this one before.

Favorite C64 dialogue: “Hey, don’t shoot me!” - Beach-Head II, when you shot your own guy

Most atmospheric game: Forbidden Forest, by Cosmi. Still creeps me out a little.

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I’ve been showing off that cheesy-yet-so-cool beginning to anyone who dares enter my living room. Awesome. I had forgotten about the mutant dude with the big, scary eyes.

And, thanks to Cervaise, I have been reminded of Impossible Mission. Stay a while. STAY FOREVER!

Destroy him, my robots. Bzzztzzt. Bzzzzt. Bzzztzzt.

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Delta Man was a toughy. I must have picked up and put down that game a few times before I finally completed it. I got it in a bundle of Cosmi games and I didn’t have the manual to figure things out with which made it really complicated.

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Looks to me like a parody of the MGM logo- although I presume “mutatis vulgaris” could also be the alien’s scientific name and not an “ars gratia artis”-style slogan.

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That was part of my problem, as well. I remember being very frustrated with the whole thing, having no manual.

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Even though I am well aware of how primitive computer games were back then (I had a ZX Spectrum), I have to say the screenshots at that link do not match what I had imagined in my mind’s eye from your description.

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Glad you found your game.

Hijack mode on

I played this one C64 game that was a ton of fun but I can’t remember much about it, never mind the name…

The basic game play was you were on this plain of squares in space that were different colors. It was in a 3d like view in that you could walk back and forwards. You had to clear the squares off the screen or change their colors. There were hazards and holes on the plain of squares. I think the name had Rainbow in it but I have searched and can’t find this game.

Any one remember from this lame description?

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Rainbow Walker?

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Wow! That was fast. That’s it. now to dl the image and give it a shot.

Thanks again

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Since the OP’s game and the 1st hijacker’s game were already answered - here’s another one.

I had this for my commadore 64. I never did really figure out what the point was or even how to play it, so if anyone successfully figured that out, I’d like to hear it as well.

The game intro starts in a desert and you walk into a big building. It looks like a pyramid or tomb of some type. At that point you’re in what looks like a library and you can walk down aisles. Every once in awhile, you see the shadow of a person at the end of the hall, but it quickly disappears. Also there was an elevator. You had to rotate the joystick to turn a crank to move the elevator. If you did it wrong, you plunged to you death.

Any ideas?

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Hmm… I can only think of two that might be similar… but I could be way off. The first one that came to mind was Aztec Challenge, which starts off with you running through what seemslike a desert towards a big pyramid thing, but there are people on either side of you throwing spears that you must duck or jump over. However, I don’t remember what was inside the pyramid/tomb, or if there was an elevator or library or anything else. My mind is a blank, I just remember running towards that big pyramid and getting frustrated with those spear-throwers.

The only other one I can think of, and it’s really a long shot, is Alcazar - The Forgotten Fortress, but I don’t remember the intro at all. I just remember running around in dungeon halls, seeing enemies pop in the doorway, sometimes these big, scary dogs that made a hideous scratching noise, spiders, etc. And those damn pits. There was a map dealie when you entered different parts of the fortress.

Those are my guesses, probably incorrect, and someone will come along with the correct answer and I’ll :smack: myself. :smiley:

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Sounds a lot like Scarabaeus.

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:smack:

I’ll bet that’s it, too.