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[Romano]

Feel free to comment and discuss this game here. Also, if you have any useful tips or tricks don't hesitate to share them with the others! Thanks!

Review and Download

There is a really funny parody of this game for the Commodore 64, called "The Yawn". Unfortunately, it is German-only (AFAICT). Search for it on your favorite C64 game site.
--Darkstar

[Adamg]

Wow! I don't think I've ever seen graphics at that high of a resolution, or in that many colors, let alone that well done in the 80's! It looks more like a game from 1992-1993.

[frd]

Hmm. I'm not getting any sound. Any ideas?

There is none.

The picture keeps blocking up long bits of text, does anyone know how to get rid of the picture?

Sorry, don't bother ansewring the previous question, I just read the review.

The resolutiion is not strange - its just simple high res EGA resolution (MCGA came out about 85/86, later to be named VGA with little more memory and outside of the ibm microchannel architecture)

The matter with this mode was, that you couldnt update the frame very often, as the bus and the cpu weren't fast enough (there was the possibility to pan around a virtual screen size of 2x2/4x1 of the resolution with hardware registers though, sadly only seldom used)

so not many games could use this mode, games like text adventures though worked very well with it (and there were quite a few up until the beginning of the nineties)

Interesting. So the standard resolution was actually the low-res of the day. Thanks for sharing k:

[frd]

Here's one of the comments from the Amiga version linked page:

Little Monkey Lost - 2005-09-16
I played this for many hours but I was too young those days. Later I have noted an interesting thing: the game has been published in year 1986 but it uses quite good digitized instrument samples on title music. Could this be the first computer game ever to use good instrument samples?[/b]

So does it mean only the Amiga version has sound?