Just recently I wrote a blog post, in which I mentioned that there a very few unique games being produced for the C64 these days. Many today are either ports, rip-offs or modern interpretations (or expansion) of existing games. That got me to thinking what are some of the unique games that I've seen for the C64 that still remain as one of a kind? Maybe because I just recently played this game this past winter, The Bouncing Kamungas! immediately popped into my head.
The Bouncing Kamungas! was written by Tom Becklund and published in the floppy disk magazine, Loadstar, issue number 35, back in 1984. It was one of the games published in Loadstar that was a little more polished than their typical game offerings, not to mention one of the more unique game premises I've ever played (it took some real imagination to come up with this one).
In this game, you're a melon farmer and you must grow and collect your harvest of melons and get them to the market to sale. But, in order to do this, you need to protect them from the “Bouncing Kamungas”, which are falling from the clouds and determined to squash your melon harvest into pulp. Your only weapon is a pitch fork, which you use to impale the Kamungas. You also have to watch out for lightning strikes, which can hit you while using your pitch fork.
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