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Series

Hunchback

4 games · 1983–1986

The whole series

Timeline 4

Games
4
Span
1983–1986
4 years
Average score
55
IGDB, released games
Highest rated
55
Hunchback
Latest release
1986
Hunchback: The Adventure

Releases by year

Released

  1. 1983
    Series debut

    1983

    Hunchback

    Century Electronics · Platform

    55IGDB

    The game is set on a castle wall. The player must cross the screen from left to right avoiding obstacles in order to ring the bell at the far right. Obstacles include pits which must be swung over on a long rope, ramparts which must be jumped (some of which contain knights with spears) and flying fireballs and arrows (to be ducked or jumped). Eventually, after completing a number of screens, the player must rescue…

    • Arcade
    • DOS
    • Acorn Electron
    • Amstrad CPC
    • BBC Microcomputer System
    • Commodore C64/128/MAX
    • +4
  2. 1984

    November 1, 1984

    Hunchback II: Quasimodo's Revenge

    Ocean Software · Platform

    On the first six screens Quasimodo must collect bonus bells to reach the following screen. On the first, a simple platform arrangement, the bells are set into the floor and walking over them will collect them. Each level of the…

    • Amstrad CPC
    • Commodore C64/128/MAX
    • ZX Spectrum
  3. 1986
    Latest release

    1986

    Hunchback: The Adventure

    Ocean Software · Adventure

    As they went on to demonstrate with Nightbreed, Ocean wasn't afraid to try a few different approaches to licensed material once they'd gotten their mitts on it, which is how you explain following up not one but two run-and-jump platform games with a text adventure game -- the change in approach a breath of fresh air and, perhaps, a response to critics suggesting that rehashing the same old thing is getting tired and…

    • Amstrad CPC
    • Commodore C64/128/MAX
    • ZX Spectrum