Captain Dynamo

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Description

Insane genius Austen van Flyswatter has stolen a huge collection of diamonds, and retrieving them involves navigating a succession of fiendishly-designed arrangements of platforms and traps. Does that sound like a job for a retired superhero? Captain Dynamo thinks so, and aims to recapture them for their rightful owner.

Gameplay is platform-based, with 12 (6 in Amiga version) vertically-scrolling levels, each containing around 50 diamonds - the more of these you can collect, the higher your score. Some will require advance planning to reach, while you will often be dependent on booster pads to reach the higher sections of a level.

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• Physical Bonus Content: Poster

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Critic Reviews

Sinclair User	ZX Spectrum	Jul, 1992	90 out of 100	90
Atari ST User	Atari ST	Nov, 1992	80 out of 100	80
Amiga Computing	Amiga	Dec, 1992	76 out of 100	76
ST Format	Atari ST	Nov, 1992	76 out of 100	76
Commodore Format	Commodore 64	Nov, 1992	68 out of 100	68
Amiga Format	Amiga	Oct, 1992	67 out of 100	67
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Oct, 1992	57 out of 100	57
Amiga Power	Amiga	Oct, 1992	57 out of 100	57
The Good Old Days (Staff Reviews only)	DOS	Oct 13, 2021	3 out of 6	50
Polski Portal Amigowy	Amiga	Apr 19, 2014	30 out of 100	30

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Trivia

Cancelled successor

A sequel was in development for the C64, by Finlay Munro and Wayne Billingham. Although Finlay was paid for the game, it was never released - Codemasters reputedly had around 20 completed games left unreleased when they abandoned the machine. A near-complete preview build lacking only music, the final level, an end sequence and some tweaks has been recovered by Wayne

Awards

• Commodore Format
  • July 1993 (Issue 34) - Modern Classics: Platformers (It's a Croaker!)