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An
interesting title brought to my attention from a reader of Atariage.com,
Avram Dumitrescu.
This
is a kind of frogger clone which was developed for Adventure International
by a guy called Russ Wetmore. A review
of the released Atari game gives this rough description...
"In
Preppie you control prepster, where your job is to recover wayward
golf balls that have been hit into the rough. Along the way, you
must avoid speeding golf carts, bulldozers, lawn mowers and gigantic
frogs in your quest. You must also leap canoes, logs and gators
in order to negotiate the water hazard.
Completion
of a screen results in a more difficult setting, which must be
negotiated at a faster pace. Don't even graze an ankle -- you'll
end up flat as a pancake underneath an adversary. A clock at the
top of the screen ticks off the precious seconds. Unless you retrieve
the balls on a screen before the clock winds down, you will automatically
lose a life.
Preppie
is addictive, humorous and maddening all at the same time -- an
unbeatable arcade combination."
It
seems like a very good conversion then. So what happened to the
C64 version?
Russ
had the following to say: "Preppie! was rewritten for the
C64 by some developers that hung me out to dry and never delivered
the final product. To be fair, the C64 graphics architecture made
a straight port nearly impossible."
So
sadly it might be slightly tough trying to locate anything of
this game, but hopefully Russ might soon be able to point us in
the right direction. Time will tell!...
More
soon we hope...
Frank
(Additional
source credits - Avram Dumitrescu)
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