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.