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Released:
1987
Publisher:
Ocean Software
Platforms:
Sinclair Spectrum, , Amstrad CPC &
PCW, MSX, Commodore C64, Atari ST
Z80
Programming: Jon Ritman
Art:
Bernie Drummond
SFX
& Music: Guy Stevens
History:
Head over Heels used the isometric engine
programmed for Batman with
some modifications for 2 characters. It’s
strange how the use of two characters was
hailed as a creative masterstroke but at
the time I just thought of it as a way to
give slightly more complex puzzles. The
game was twice the size of Batman,
weighing in at 301 locations. Bernie’s
graphics were better than ever and Guy’s
little ditties livened up the platforms
with hardware sound. An in-house
programmer at Ocean (Colin Porche) did a
line by line conversion to 6502 and 68000
and the code was so identical that the
released version had the same bugs. I had
to make modifications to a couple of
locations for the C64 to lower the
processor load but otherwise there was
very little difference between the
different platforms. The game got rave
reviews for all versions including, for
the first time, the C64 version.
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