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Playing Labyrinth (C64)

Cybergoth

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Hi there!

 

TADA:

labyrinth.gif

 

Yup, that's David Bowie himself on a C64 screen! :)

 

Oh how I loved the movie! Ok, I was 12 when I saw it in the cinema. It was definitely a lot better than "Howard the Duck" and "Big Trouble in Little China" which I also saw around that time. And I was sooo into Bowie at the time, I probably would've liked any movie with him. In fact

:lolblue:

 

I've seen Labyrinth about 20 times since, I was playing the Underground 7" each morning before I left for school for a whole 2 years - but weird enough, until today I never played the game...

 

It starts out rather funny: As a kind of text Adventure. Only after you manage your way into a cinema and actually watch the movie "Labyrinth" it suddenly turns into a graphic adventure. I hear that Douglas Adams was involved in writing the game and this was one of his ideas :)

 

Well, from the cinema you get sucked into the Labyrinth and have a limit of 13 hours to get out of it again. The game borrows all characters from the film besides the girl and the baby, but it has different riddles and you take a different way through the Labyrinth.

 

Pretty clever, so you're playing your own story, not just repeating the film.

 

The games interface is a bit of a mixed bag. You control yourself with the joystick, but create action commands with the cursor keys. Lucasarts would further improve this still for Maniac Mansion.

 

The game seemed rather easy for a while and I was progressing fast, but somewhere 2/3 into it I got seriously stuck. After a while I got the impression that I was trapped in a dead-end, which unfortunately was confirmed when consulting a walkthrough. There it says:

NOTE: Once you turn the disk over, you won't be able to return to the Stone

Corridor or any of the other areas on the first side of the disk. Make sure

you have the Shears, the Log and the Bracelet before you come here, because

you won't have another chance to get them!

Oh thanks! Guess what, I didn't have the Bracelet! :x

 

I'm way too angry to start over from the beginning tonight. Maybe tomorrow...

 

Greetings,

Manuel

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Cybergoth

Uihjah, that was a short game. It took ~ 1 hour to get back to where I was yesterday already - with the bracelet this time! Then just one riddle and a last action scene later, came the final confrontation:

 

labyrinth_x.gif

 

Very easy to beat from there... :)

 

Well, short it was, but it also had a certain charme to it and some great and some funny moments. Definitely the best adventure I was "Playing..." so far.

 

Some future day the "Playing..." series may see another Lucasarts adventure called "Loom", but first it will continue rather Gauntletoid.

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Impaler_26

Oha.... i liked the movie but i haven't played this game yet!! Somehow i completely missed it during those nearly 18 years i have my C64.

I need to grab this game and finally try it out! :)

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uosipa llamxew

I consider myself to be a pretty big David Bowie fan. Still, I've never seen Labyrinth. I've always been interested in the film. I bought it for my ex several years ago before she died. Whenever I see the movie in the store, I think of her. There's been several occasions when I've thought about picking it up from the rental place, but somehow I feel hesitant.

 

Anyways thanks for the YouTube link. I hadn't seen that before... totally cool! :)

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Cybergoth

Do you know

? Bowie singing Heroes with german lyrics. Unfortunately no real vid, just the music and photos.

 

An even better live version of that was shown in the movie "We Children from Bahnhof Zoo" (and is on its soundtrack), pure cult! :)

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Do you know
? Bowie singing Heroes with german lyrics. Unfortunately no real vid, just the music and photos.

 

An even better live version of that was shown in the movie "We Children from Bahnhof Zoo" (and is on its soundtrack), pure cult! :)

 

Very cool! I didn't know about that! I really thought that I'd heard it all! ;)

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uosipa llamxew

I saw a collector's edition Labyrinth DVD in the store for a decent price, so I picked it up this week (It has one of those plastic ripple covers that makes the picture shift and appear to have motion when it is tilted). I just finished watching the movie a few minutes ago.

 

I'm not a big fan of muppets and 80s' movies are notoriously cheesy, but Labyrinth was much better than I had expected! I enjoyed it quite a lot actually. I'm definitely going to check the game out.

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Cybergoth

Speaking of David Bowie as an actor, only two days ago I noticed him playing in the recent movie called "Prestige".

 

For a moment he looked just remotely familiar, but then you see his two-colored eyes in a close-up and you know it is him :)

 

BTW: Good movie with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, coming from the guy that also did Memento and Batman Begins.

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