labyrinth
it seems bob from zeal has been on a similar journey rediscovering old 8-bit video game themes recently. bob is currently digging the 1986 nintendo game labyrinth, which was of course based on the bowie-in-spandex movie of the same name. head to bob’s blog for a ridiculous 8-bit version of magic dance…
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hey bob! check this out!
i myself grew up on the c64 version of labyrinth. i could never get very far in it though – this was a pretty recurring theme for me playing commodore 64 games. i was not a good gamer. i tended to give up when things got hard, which is a philosophy that i have tried hard to carry over into my adult life. things would be much easier if david bowie visited me in a freaky dream
wow! you played it? i’ve been trying but most of it’s in japanese and i keep running out of time. the promise of more 8bit bowie has kept me coming back.
you can hear some of the music from the c64 version of labyrinth here – including a harrowing rendering of “within you” the song from the movie’s creepy end scene with all the stairs
from lemon64.com: An excellent game – did you know that the late Douglas Adams was the designer? He was very proud of the fact that if you didn’t get the log from the beginning of the game and used it in the ‘odd hallway’ at the end of the game after being chased by the cleaners, then you couldn’t finish the game…. Funny sense of humour that guy… Which is why the option of ‘towels’ was in the final level when you got to dispose of Jareth. Great great stuff!