Geryon

I I Know exactly what you mean. Things were more revolutionary back then than evolutionary. It's just more transistors, more pipes, more memory == more speed. I still have a 10yr old laptop that runs the latest and greatest Linux OS without a problem (but no modern games). I can't even conceive using a TI-99/4A from 1984 in 1994 when Pentium systems were emerging.

When I was 6 or 7 my parents picked up a TRS-80 CoCo (~1982), my Dad upgraded it to 64k RAM, added composite video out to it and later a floppy drive and printer. I showed so much interest in it (aside from gaming), my parents picked me up a TI-99/4A that was my own in 1984, it had only the cassette adapter and joysticks. Later in 1987 I built my first 8088 XT system, 640k ram, 320k floppy and a CGA card that was modified for composite video out running DOS 2.1, I later added an MFM 30MB harddrive to the mix and got a VGA monitor as a middle school graduation gift before upgrading to a AMD 286 w/ 1MB of RAM shoehorned in to the XT case which eventually became my BBS.

So I've searched a number of times for this game and this morning I decided to search Google for "trs-80 game Alfred Hitchcock" and I found it. It was a knock off of Shamus, another game I never heard of but coincidentally I have a bid in for a lot of TI-99/4A games that includes Shamus. In fact, watching a YouTube video it was a direct copy of Shamus with the title changed.

I have, what I think is, an odd one that's been eluding me. TRS-80 CoCo - The game's name was called 'Oogus', I think and the title screen played the Alfred Hitchcock Presents intro music (Funeral March of a Marionette). I remember running around a maze-like screen that tiled to other screens when you hit the edge. There were bad guys but I only remember these characters with 4 appendages that were spinning. I don't remember what the main character looked like. I was 7 or 8 at the time so my memory is really fuzzy and the floppy (I still have) is not readable anymore. My parents were part of some kind of CoCo club back in the day and they exchanged tons of games, 90% of them were knock-offs of popular arcade games like Pac-Tac (PacMan), Dunkmunk(Donkey Kong), Astro (Astro Blaster,), etc.. I can't find any reference to a game by that name, so I am assuming it's a knockoff of a copyrighted title.