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Attack of the Mutant Camels is a surrealist computer game written by Jeff Minter and released for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit family in 1983 by Minter's Llamasoft. The horizontally scrolling shooter is similar to the Atari 2600 game The Empire Strikes Back (1982), with AT-AT walkers replaced by giant camels.[1] Confusingly, a very different game from Jeff Minter's Gridrunner series was also released in the US under the name Attack of the Mutant Camels.

Attack of the Mutant Camels
Developer(s)Llamasoft
Publisher(s)Llamasoft
Designer(s)Jeff Minter
Platform(s)Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit
Release1983
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Llamasoft released a sequel, Revenge of the Mutant Camels, in 1984.


Gameplay


Atari 8-bit version
Atari 8-bit version

The player controls a small jet plane and has the task of killing giant yellow camels before they reach the home base. Doing so requires several dozens of shots. The camels retaliate by shooting fireballs from their mouths. If a camel reaches the base, the game is lost. Once all camels on a level are killed, the player has to survive a "hyperspace" sequence which requires avoiding high-speed missiles. Upon successful completion, the next level presents a new wave of camels, with slightly harder gameplay.


Legacy


In 2011, Attack of the Mutant Camels was chosen to be featured in the Smithsonian Institution's "The Art of Video Games" exhibit.[2]

In 2012 the assembly language source code of the Konix version of the game was released on GitHub.[3][4]


References


  1. "Attack of the Mutant Camels – Llamasoft Baachive".
  2. "The Art of Video Games Exhibition Checklist" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-22.
  3. jeff-minters-unreleased-konix-multisystem-port-of-attack-of-the-mutant-camels-preserved-a-due-for-release Archived 2016-04-29 at the Wayback Machine on retrocollect.com (2012)
  4. AOTMC89 "Konix Multisystem - Attack Of The Mutant Camels '89 V0.4 - Source Code" on github.com



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[de] Attack of the Mutant Camels

Attack of the Mutant Camels ist ein surrealistisches Computerspiel, das Anfang der 1980er-Jahre für den Commodore 64 und Atari-8-Bit-Computer produziert wurde. Bei dem Spiel handelt es sich um ein Scrolling-Shooter-Spiel. Das Spiel wurde von Jeff Minter programmiert. Veröffentlicht wurde es von Jeff Minters eigenem Unternehmen Llamasoft im Jahr 1983.
- [en] Attack of the Mutant Camels



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