Revenge of the Mutant Camels

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Description

This typically zany Jeff Minter title sets you as a mutated camel, with an optional support one mimicking your moves elsewhere. The hordes of enemies to be taken on include falling umbrellas and drinks machines. Shot enemies release tokens ranging from points bonuses and energy recharges to control-reversers and poison.

Speaking of controls, the game uses the same system as Llamatron, which means that you fire automatically in the direction you're moving, but pressing the fire button allows you to rotate the direction of fire while immobile. This allows enemies in different parts of the screen to be attacked from less precarious positions.

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Part of the Following Group

• Mutant Camels series

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Critic Reviews

Home Computing Weekly	Commodore 64	Feb 21, 1984		100
Personal Computer Games	Commodore 64	Feb, 1984	10 out of 10	100
Your 64	Commodore 64	Apr, 1984	90 out of 100	90
Popular Computing Weekly	Commodore 64	Jan 26, 1984	9 out of 10	90
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Commodore 64	Mar, 1984	34 out of 40	85
Your Computer	Commodore 64	Mar, 1984		80
GameHippo.com	DOS	Dec 31, 1998	5 out of 10	50
The Retro Spirit	DOS	Mar 05, 2010	1 out of 6	17

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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!'