Attack of the Mutant Camels

Not to be confused with an entirely different game in Minter's Gridrunner series which was released under this title in the US.
Attack of the Mutant Camels
Atari 800 version of AOTMC
Developer(s) Llamasoft
Publisher(s) Llamasoft
Designer(s) Jeff Minter
Platform(s) Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family
Release date(s) 1983
Genre(s) Scrolling shooter
Mode(s) Single-player

Attack of the Mutant Camels was a surrealist computer game released for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers in 1983 by Jeff Minter's Llamasoft. It is a horizontally-scrolling shooter.

Summary

The player controls a small jet plane and has the task of killing giant yellow camels before they reach the home base. Doing so requires several dozens of shots. The camels retaliate by shooting fireballs from their mouth.

Each camel required several shots to destroy; if a camel reached the base, the game was over. Once all camels on a level had been killed, the player had to survive a "hyperspace" sequence which required avoiding high-speed missiles. Upon successful completion, the next level presented a new wave of camels, with slightly harder gameplay.

The game is similar to the Atari 2600 game The Empire Strikes Back (1982), with AT-AT walkers replaced by giant camels.

Llamasoft produced a sequel, Revenge of the Mutant Camels, in 1984.

Confusingly, a very different game from Jeff Minter's Gridrunner series was also released in the US under the name Attack of the Mutant Camels.

In 2011, Attack of the Mutant Camels was chosen to be featured in the Smithsonian Institution's "The Art of Video Games" exhibit.[1]

In 2012 the assembly language source code of the Konix version of the game was released on GitHub.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "The Art of Video Games Exhibition Checklist" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
  2. ↑ jeff-minters-unreleased-konix-multisystem-port-of-attack-of-the-mutant-camels-preserved-a-due-for-release on retrocollect.com (2012)
  3. ↑ AOTMC89 "Konix Multisystem - Attack Of The Mutant Camels '89 V0.4 - Source Code" on github.com

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