Suicide!

Development Background

According to the developer, original name for the characters trying to die by suicide was "Suicidal Maniacs". However, the publisher thought Cretin Creatures was a better term for them.

Each of the Cretin Creatures is 7 pixels wide and are conveniently aligned on byte boundaries to optimise the blitter routine. Each Cretin Creature has a padding of black so that they self erase the previous one when being drawn. This produces flicker-free movement.

The sound routine used for the music was based on the one from page 45 of the Apple II Reference Manual (aka The Red Book).