9.4 /10 1 Votes
4.5/5 My Abandonware Mode(s) Single-player Genre Action game | 4.9/5 Classic Retro Games Release date(s) 1983 Initial release date 1983 Adapted from B.C. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Designer(s) Rick BanksMichael Bate Developers Sierra Entertainment, Sydney Development, Michael Davies Publishers Sierra Entertainment, EMI Music Japan, Software Projects Similar Sydney Development games, Platform games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
B c s quest for tires colecovision gameplay footage
B.C.'s Quest for Tires is a 1983 video game designed by Rick Banks and Michael Bate and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released for the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, ColecoVision, ZX Spectrum, MSX, and Apple II. The game is based on the comic strip B.C. by Johnny Hart, with the title being a play on the title of the contemporaneous film Quest for Fire.
Contents
A sequel, Grog's Revenge, was released in 1984.
Story
The player takes the role of the caveman Thor, who has to rescue his girlfriend, "Cute Chick", who has been kidnapped by a dinosaur. To do this, he must travel on his stone unicycle (actually an impossible wheel) through several levels. Each level has Thor moving from the left to the right, avoiding various dangers.
Gameplay
B.C.'s Quest for Tires is an action game taking place on several consecutive levels. The levels start out simple, with Thor having to jump over potholes or duck under tree branches. Later levels become more complex, for example requiring Thor to jump on turtles in order to cross a lake, or to be carried over a lava pit by a "Dooky Bird". Other B.C. characters, such as the Fat Broad, also appear on some levels.
Reception
Softline stated that, given the conventional gameplay ("it's that get-from-point-A-to-point-B kind of game"), the use of the familiar comic characters made "the player feel like finishing the game is worthwhile ... [Otherwise] it's just not the same". The magazine concluded that "B.C.'s Quest for Tires isn't so much a computer game as it is an interactive cartoon. This cartoon has its limits, but it does provide some challenge". Compute! praised the game's "excellent graphics" and animation, which "approach cartoon standards".
The game won a number of awards:
