Padge Plays! Retro Edition - Werewolves Of London (1987 - Viz Design) Commodore 64 Edition
6Welcome to Padge Plays! Retro Edition - Werewolves Of London By Viz Designs for the Commodore 64!
Seeing as we're teetering on the brink of Halloween and continuing on from our spooky playthroughs I thought now would be a good time to bring out one of my favourite games from my first ever computer to the channel, Werewolves of London for the C64! I lost countless hours to this game as a youngster roaming around the misty streets of the capital in search of my family members who cursed me in to my lycanthropic state so I could murder them. (Hey, it's the only way to break the curse!) And I still haven't completed the bloody thing... but it's the premise I love. And for a game brought out originally for the Amstrad CPC and Spectrum it's a pretty open world affair, letting you roam around the streets as you see fit without shoehorning you in to a certain direction at a certain time. YES, it did have it's problems, (like being an incomplete game on the Spectrum... ahem) but like most things viewed through rose tinted glasses it's does no wrong in my eyes.
And I'm still crap at it as you'll see!
Here's a description from Deadpan Flook's Gruesome Games Blog:
Werewolves Of London (ZX Spectrum, Amstrad, C64)
Cursed by a family of Gypsy yuppies, this game has you hunting down every last member of that family and killing them, in a bid to cure yourself of an evil, lycanthropic affliction that sees you become a werewolf by night! You have to munch your way through London to get to them..but be careful of the police as the more you kill, the more will be after you!
You can collect various items to help you in your quest and if you eat people as a werewolf, you can find some useful stuff like train tickets which will let you into the Underground, or keys to let you enter the park. Members of the family of fiends who cursed you can be found by keeping an eye out on the bottom of the screen. A cross will flash when they are near and they are easily distinguishable from the other randoms walking around as they are always clad in black.
Inevitably, you'll end up in jail before you find all eight of your enemies. The key to success is to store items in your cell that will help you escape, like a file to open the window or a torch to see in the dark sewers. A manhole cover lifter gets you into these smelly tunnels so best keep an eye out for that too!
There's loads of fun to be had prowling around London's parks, sewers, rooftops and Underground, preying on helpless civilians and armed police alike! Finding a family member always induces a slight panic as you strive to get them before they escape and legging it from the policeman with the keys who locks you up can also be a right laugh ....
The game can be a bit glitchy in places, and suffers quite a bit from slowdown when a lots happening on screen. Unfortunately, the original Spectrum release also came with a bug which meant the game couldn't be completed. But thanks to the wonders of modern science, a bug fixed version can now be obtained from World Of Spectrum meaning you can finally be free of the curse after all these years! Hurrah!
But yeah, it's still well worth a go....you'd have to be howling at the moon to not try it at least!
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You can check out the awesome blog of Deadpan Flook and his gruesome games here:
http://deadpanflooksgruesomegames.blogspot.com/
You can pick up Werewolves of London for the Commodore 64 here:
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/werewolves-of-london-55f
You'll need an emulator to run it! My preferred one is VICE. Get it here:
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/
You can read the Wiki page for the game here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolves_of_London_(video_game)
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