Drol
| Drol | |
|---|---|
 Screenshot of Drol | |
| Developer(s) | Benny "Aik Beng" Ngo |
| Publisher(s) | Brøderbund |
| Designer(s) | Benny "Aik Beng" Ngo |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, NEC PC-8801, Sega SG-1000 |
| Release | 1983 |
| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | One player only |
Drol is a 1983 computer game published by Brøderbund. It was originally released for the Apple II, and was later ported to the Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari 8-bit, and Sega SG-1000.[1]
Gameplay
The player controls a robot flying through a four story maze, attempting to rescue people and animals while avoiding traps and enemies such as alien creatures, snakes, eagles, magnets and axes. There are only three levels, but the game repeatedly starts over in a more difficult version if the third level is completed. In the third level of some versions, in order to reach the final floor without being eaten by a plant sprouting from out of nowhere, the player must choose between three different trapdoors, and the correct trapdoor varies from game to game.[citation needed]
Reception
Drol's reviews by the magazines of the era were generally positive. RUN magazine, reveiwing the Commodore 64 version in May 1984, gave it an "A" — its highest rating — and described it as "fun, funny, and exciting," although it was criticized for slow loading times due to the Commodore 1541 disk drive's notorious sluggishness.[2] In 1984 Softline readers named the game the seventh most-popular Apple program of 1983.[3] Ahoy! in 1984 called Drol "an amusing little game".[4]
References
- ^ Anderson, John J. (April 1984). "Commodore's port". Creative Computing. 10 (4): 214. Retrieved 2005-12-09.
- ^ Annucci, Marilyn (May 1984). "Software Gallery: Drol". RUN. 1 (5): 21–22. ISSN 0741-4285.
- ^ "The Best and the Rest". St.Game. Mar–Apr 1984. p. 49. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ Marsh, Jamie (May 1984). "Drol". Ahoy!. p. 56. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
External links
- Drol at MobyGames
- Video from the C64 Version on archive.org