Revenge of the Mutant Camels

Moby ID: 14746

Trivia

Competition

A competition held on the day of the C64 version's original release took the winner to Egypt, to ride a real camel around the Pyramids.

Development

The game was written over a two month period. Programmer Jeff Minter spent hours at the zoo watching a real camel in order to model the camel's animation in the game.

Freeware release

Jeff Minter released the full version of the game as a free download on 8 February 1997, along with Llamatron: 2112. The license allows free distribution by any party as long as no money is charged and the original readme file is not removed from the archive.

Awards

  • ST Format
    • January 1993 - #45 in '50 finest Atari ST games of all time' list
    • May 1992 - #1 Most weird and stupid plots of all time (Atari ST games).* Zzap!
    • May 1985 (Issue 1) - #38 'It's the Zzap! 64 Top 64!'

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Trivia contributed by Martin Smith, Cantillon, MrFlibble, Jo ST, FatherJack, 64er.