Posted By
MIK
on 2014-09-20
02:51:55
 |  Re: Who thinks KISTART should get a remake?
The story goes, Udo Gertz had a number of friends with Commodore 16's and he wanted to give them games as good as what was on C64 being the under dog machine. Don't forget owning a C16 or Plus/4 was also a machine for poor people, or the not so well off families who may of had Brothers & Sisters meaning spending almost x3 as much on a C64 could not be justified. Udo Gertz was doing us a favour as he already had a Vic20 & C64! 
Seeing as Udo was maybe 13 years old when he did C64 Tom Thumb you need to cut the game some slack. What you also have to remember is that there are loads of what I would call worse games on C16/Plus4 that sold for good money and by standards of some of the not so good ones such as Suicide Run they make Tom 64 look and play like a Masterpiece.
There is a certain charm about Tom 64 any way and it has a cool atmosphere all of it's own thanks to the strange, spooky but also interesting music. Without it there would never of been a Tom Thumb as good as it is on C16/Plus4! Any thing you don't like about Tom 64 is more about the time it was coded, the style of how games were before the likes of Elite came along with Ghosts'n Goblins on C64.
Now seeing as Udo also had a Vix20, I wonder that just maybe the music in Tom 64 was inspired by the music in the Vic20 game Rockman. Not the tune but the style of it. It's classic 1984 stuff any way! 
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