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Five Star Games was a compilation pack released in 1986. To the best of my
knowledge this was the only time Tom Thumb and Ghost Town were presented in a compilation.
The box set also sold for £9.99 english pounds back then. One small odd feature of the cover
is back in 1986 Anirog had changed their name to Anco. Here you can see Ghost Town holds
the Anirog software house name, but Tom Thumb has changed to the Anco software house name?
The Tom cover on the back is from Anirog. Well in truth Kingsoft released both games :-)
Also on the back cover Beau - Jolly added a very small review of Tom Thumb.
"
Arguably the best game ever on the C16. A 178 screen maze is incorporated
in this classic arcade / adventure."
BJ Overall rating 96%
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Once you have completed Tom Thumb you are taken back to the very start to face the many dangers all over
again, but this time spikes have been placed down all over the pyramid. Udo only had 16k of memory to
play with and in an effort to keep the game going he added at random spikes with in the game. In truth
Udo's trick keeped me wondering for years what was beyond a set of spikes I could not pass. The small
screen grab (Top) shows you the point at which I was stuck. Trying to get the timing of the jump was impossible,
or so I thought? With the Bat, Spikes and Flower getting me every time I lost all my lives trying.
Now I could continue with
Tom Thumb I was on a mission to see what was at the end of the game. Going back the random spikes
the game does come to a sad end. The screen grab (Right) displays a bug with the random spikes.
Tom can not pass through the spikes sat on top of the ladder. Even with the spikes down Tom can not pass
and this is because your are able to stand next the the center spike when all spikes are down, in effect
blocking the ladder aswell. At this point in the game I have just opened door 2 and on my way to get key 3.
I'm hoping this screen grab is something special as I believe this is the highest score of
198000, maximum keys of 28 and the
maximum amount of 13 lives that you can possibly get !!
Game Over. There has been no cheating no tricks involved with this grab.
Let me know if it's possible to go beyond here or you have a higher score. I only needed to find one more
treasure to get 14 lives ;-)
The curse of Ghost Town is a little tune hidden in the game! Some of you may of heared this before?
You may of heared at some points in the game little musical notes playing when going up and down
ladders or after jumping of a spring. The notes can also be heared when going through the small platforms.
As in the screen grab (Left) you can sometimes find a point where you can get the whole tune to
play. The best bet is to go up and down the ladders until you can find a spot, remember not all ladders
you can do this but it's easy to find one that will. If you listen carefully you can almost make out
some of the tune and this tune is made up from notes of Ghost Town! As you know Udo also coded the game
Ghost Town. Very Spooky!! Right now the emulators cant play the whole tune and only some notes. You can
still make out parts of the tune if your lucky, but for now your need a real C16/Plus4 to hear it
100% correct.
