No, it’s simply because the game made greater demands on the player than it did the hardware, a bit like when Andy Warhol took down his paintings because he was the art! The concept was brilliant and the C64 was a perfect match, and while, when I think C64, I might think Commando first and Winter Games second, Boulder Dash would probably be next. And not just because no game was ever more suited to demonstrating its graphical prowess thanks to all that chunky brown action going on! It’s not even because that’s where I eventually played it the most. Was there ever a game that came out on as many platforms as Boulder Dash? And that’s before we bring it its sequels and remakes and remasters and construction kits and spin-offs like Rockford and GemJam! Or, indeed, it’s rip-offs on the one system that completely missed out on any Boulder Dash love, which was, of course, the one that I owned! We had Rockman on the VIC-20 though, and while it wasn’t quite Repton on the BBC, it was a great Boulder Dash clone! In fact, considering it was available for the unexpanded, 3.5K VIC-20 no less, and it was a Mastertronic budget title, what we got here was nothing short of a miracle, albeit a ridiculously hard miracle most of the time!įor all of its proper ports though, stemming from the original 1984 Atari 8-bit versions by First Star Software, I will forever associate Boulder Dash with the Commodore 64.
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