B.C.'s Quest for Tires

B.C.'s Quest for Tires
Developer(s) Sydney Development
Publisher(s) Sierra On-Line
Designer(s) Charles Benton
Platform(s) Apple II family, Atari 8-bit
ColecoVision, C=64
MS-DOS, MSX
ZX Spectrum
Release date(s) 1983
Genre(s) Action game
Mode(s) Single-player
Screenshot from the Commodore 64 version.

B.C.'s Quest for Tires is a 1983 video game developed by Sydney Development and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released for the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision, ZX Spectrum, MSX, and Apple II, based on the comic strip B.C. by Johnny Hart. The game was designed by Paul Butler and Rick Banks. The name of the game is a play on the title of the contemporaneous film Quest for Fire.

Story

The player takes the role of the caveman Thor, who has to rescue his girlfriend, "Cute Chick", who has been kidnapped by a dinosaur. To do this, he must travel on his stone unicycle (actually an impossible wheel) through several levels. Each level has Thor moving from the left to the right, avoiding various dangers.

Gameplay

B.C.'s Quest for Tires is an action game taking place on several consecutive levels. The levels start out simple, with Thor having to jump over potholes or duck under tree branches. Later levels become more complex, for example requiring Thor to jump on turtles in order to cross a lake, or to be carried over a lava pit by a "Dooky Bird".[1] Other B.C. characters, such as the Fat Broad, also appear on some levels.

Reception

Softline stated that, given the conventional gameplay ("it's that get-from-point-A-to-point-B kind of game"), the use of the familiar comic characters made "the player feel like finishing the game is worthwhile ... [Otherwise] it's just not the same". The magazine concluded that "B.C.'s Quest for Tires isn't so much a computer game as it is an interactive cartoon. This cartoon has its limits, but it does provide some challenge".[2] Compute! praised the game's "excellent graphics" and animation, which "approach cartoon standards".[3]

The game won numerous awards,[1] including:

Sequels

A sequel, Grog's Revenge, was released in 1984.

References

  1. 1 2 B. C.'s Quest for Tires Review
  2. Yuen, Matt (Nov–Dec 1983). "B.C.'s Quest for Tires". Softline. pp. 21–22. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  3. Trunzo, James V. (April 1984). "B.C.'s Quest for Tires". Compute!. pp. 99–100. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  4. "Computer Games Magazine 1984 Golden Floppy Award for Excellence". Computer Games Magazine: p. 19. July/August 1984. Check date values in: |date= (help)

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