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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Revenge of the Mutant Camels DOS These pesky birds are dropping 1-ton weights on us.

Revenge of the Mutant Camels Commodore 64 Level 2 - it's raining cats and dogs

Revenge of the Mutant Camels DOS High score entry

Revenge of the Mutant Camels DOS In this level, "Manic Minter", the player goes up against the coder of the game, throwing miniature camels at me.

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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
Popular Computing Weekly	Commodore 64	Jan 26, 1984	9 out of 10	90
Your 64	Commodore 64	Apr, 1984	90 out of 100	90
Games-X	Amiga	Feb 06, 1992		60
Games-X	Atari ST	Feb 06, 1992		60
Amiga Power	Amiga	May, 1992		60
GameHippo.com	DOS	Dec 31, 1998	5 out of 10	50
The Retro Spirit	DOS	Mar 05, 2010	1 out of 6	17
Amiga Joker	Amiga	May, 1993	Unscored	Unscored

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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!'

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