The Bod Squad
Description
Bod the Alien's children have been kidnapped and taken to three different time periods on Earth. Egyptian pyramid, medieval castle and Victorian haunted house. Good job Bod is a good friend of Dr. Who. In the TARDIS Bod travels back in time to rescue his kids.
The Bod Squad is a one-player, flick-screen platform game. You control Bod with your joystick and you can jump, squash (duck), swim and sometimes fly. To help Bod on each level there are potions, springs, teleports and hidden platforms. Switches also can be found to make walls disappear.
Trying to stop Bod are many enemies, pressing your fire-button slings Bod-bombs to destroy these. Also scattered around each levels are spikes, heads that spit fire and bear-traps. Touching any of these loses one of only three lives. Another hindrance is the time limit, which can be topped up by finding a potion.
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Development
The game was originally under development for Digital Magic, as a bigger full price game under the title Bod the Alien, before they went bankrupt in late 1991. Thalamus were also offered the game, but rejected it as they felt the C64 was dying out. Further levels were being worked on, which were cut when not complete in order to make the game a budget title in a single load. An Amiga version was also being worked on at the time, but programmer Mike Halsall lost his copy, and nothing beyond screenshots is believed to survive.
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Game added July 6, 2012. Last modified February 22, 2023.