Wednesday, July 13, 2011

A DOS sidescroller where you played as some kind of captain?

Question

It has been bugging me for ages..it was the one game I lived on as a kid.

  • You were some kind of (yellow?) superhero/captain person and you had a ray gun.

  • It was 8-bit style graphics, maybe VGA. It was about 1998 when I played it. (Very, very simple)

  • It came on a floppy disk and I ran it via DOS.

  • Some of the enemies were wasps in this set of dark stairs you could go down.

  • I vaguely remember some random beach balls (the generic colourful ones) appeared

  • Most of the world was above ground and was at night. There was some kind of wooded area as well..but the rest was underground in a top secret base type place.

  • There was no vocals or speech or anything.

The reason I mention the captain part is I swear the game is called Captain Banana or something.

EDIT: The HUD/GUI was non-existent, or there wasn't much of it.

Answer

That sounds a lot like Captain Comic, though it had a fairly large HUD/GUI. The date is also about 10 years off (it's from 1988, not 1998. Though I doubt many DOS, floppy disk based games were coming out in 1998)

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