Flimbo's Quest Longplay (C64) [50 FPS]
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Developed and published by System 3 in 1990
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Flimbo's Quest is a platform/shooting/collect 'em up very much in the same theme as Hawkeye. Flimbo is on a mission to rescue his girlfriend, Pearly, from the clutches of Franz Dandruff, a mad scientist who intends to use Pearly's youth to rejuvenate is ageing body.
Each level requires Flimbo to locate the monster as indicated in the status panel at the bottom of the screen, kill it and collect the scroll it drops. The scroll must then be delivered back to the shop located centrally within each level, which will return a letter in the code word that is required to deactivate Dandruff's youth-stealing device at the end of the game.
Initially, there is a time limit of twenty minutes in which Flimbo must collect the code words and save Pearly. Additional time can be found by collecting hour-glasses dropped by monsters, or by purchasing one from the shop.
As well as extra time, the shop sells additional items to aid Flimbo, including increasing the range of his attack (which you will definitely want to buy as soon as possible), an extra letter (extremely expensive) or a invincibility potion.
Killing monsters will usually reveal money that can be collected and spent in the shop, as well as occasionally dropping a heart. Shooting the heart will change the colour and delivering one of each to the shop will result in the player earning an extra life.
The game has a fairly gentle difficulty curve across the first three levels, but then things get increasingly difficult. In later levels, monsters will pop out from behind parts of the scenery and kill Flimbo without giving the player time to react.
As well as monsters, the player must avoid deadly pits and should also be careful not to land on a platform from which they cannot escape; the are a number of situations where the player can end up in a location where it's impossible to jump to an adjacent platform without falling down a bottomless pit.
The game is something of a departure for System 3 yet retains their trademark level of polish. The game is great fun to play and offers a decent level of challenge to the player.
The in-game music was composed by Reyn Ouwehand and Johannes Bjerregaard and sounds superb; it really is another of those instantly recognisable and defining tunes to grace the Commodore 64.
Flimbo's Quest also had the dubious honour of being one of the pack-in games for the ill-fated Commodore 64GS console and came on a cartridge along with three other games.
I'll personally remember Flimbo's Quest as one of my favourite C64 games and certainly a highlight in it's expansive library of games.
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