Boulder Dash game. Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K / 128K.

Boulder Dash

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Platform: Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Game: Boulder Dash

Publisher: First Star Software

Year: 1984

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Description

Boulder Dash, aka Rockford, originally released in 1984, is a classic series of computer games for the Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Atari 400/800 home computers, and later ported to the NES, Acorn Electron, PC, Amstrad CPC, and many other platforms. It was programmed by Peter Liepa and published by First Star Software, which still owns the game.

Boulder Dash on the C64. "Rockford" himself is shown standing 'on' the lower brick wall, beside a diamond , some two thirds to the right. The hero of the game, whom the player has to control, is the brave prospector "Rockford". He has to dig through caves collecting gems and diamonds, while avoiding dangerous creatures of various types as well as obstacles like falling rocks and the problem of being trapped behind mountains of gems or piles of rock.

Several clones have been made of Boulder Dash. On the Amiga computers, a German-made clone called Emerald Mines actually became more popular than the original game. The MS-DOS game Supaplex, with a visual theme based on computers and circuit boards, is also widely regarded as being a clone of Boulder Dash. One more in the rocks-and-diamonds genre, the Repton series for the BBC Micro, offered suspiciously similar gameplay arrived at independently.

Boulder Dash is one of the very few computer games ever to be ported from home computers to arcades (contrary to the other way around).

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