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Released: | 1987 (37 years ago) | ||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Ocean | ||||||||||||||
Re-releaser: | The Hit Squad | ||||||||||||||
Creator: | Bernie Drummond Jon Ritman |
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Producer: | David Ward | ||||||||||||||
Coder: | Colin Porch | ||||||||||||||
Title Screen: | Jane Lowe | ||||||||||||||
Musician: | Peter Clarke | ||||||||||||||
Box Art: | Bob Wakelin | ||||||||||||||
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Main Control: | Joystick (Port 2) | ||||||||||||||
Players: | 1 Only | ||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||
Retail Price: | £8.95 Tape £12.95 Disk £2.99 Tape (The Hit Squad re-release) | ||||||||||||||
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Genre: | Adventure, Arcade 3D | ||||||||||||||
Tags: | Action, Diagonal-down, Fixed/flip-screen, Isometric, Platform, Puzzle elements, Direct control | ||||||||||||||
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10/10
Really very brilliant.
For a PC remake try 2007's Head over Heels Clone by Hugo Gil, Its the same graphics but well chosen colour (not perfect but still) Forget the Retrospec version.
Now, the C64 version is very good (much better than the MSX and A-8 versions) but suffers some slow down in places. The music is far better than it's Speccy/CPC counterparts too.
I still love this game, even now, and I'm gonna give it the same score as I give it on any other machine: 10/10 ... Seriously, it is that good!
The C64 games great I love the spectrum type glowing grahics
Graphics - absolutely beautiful. People are asking for colour - well, which one do you prefer: 160 x 200 resolution with many colours or 320 x 200 with a single colour? I think the beauty in this game lies in the details of the hi-res graphics, in multicolor the graphics would lose all the charming details. Ok, maybe a hi-res sprite overlay could work for the characters, but then the backgrounds would still be blocky.
Sounds -gotta say I love the jingles.
Puzzles & game world - a huge and atmospheric world to explore. Some devious puzzles and a lot of extremely difficult jumping action.
The quite recent PC remake is very good, but I prefer the original C64 audio scheme.
I believe there is a remake or two of this game over at remakes. Org. The classics appear to be alive y well...
Nevertheless, Head Over Heels is a sprawling game, and if this kind of arcade adventure is your thing, then it's on of the best you can find on the C64. More speed would be nice, or even passwords once you reach a different section. Starting again from scratch sucks imo. Or I'm just spoiled from modern games & emulators.
retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=hoh
Excellent!
If anyone worked out how to play it, please let me know!
Brilliant (if slightly frustrating) isometric platforming action. I only managed to get four of the five crowns. I was tempted with a reset poke that granted invulnerability once but I got trapeed in a room that had an electified (or was it spiked) floor and couldn't get out.
There is a brilliant remake for the PC visit. Www.remakes.org
Ten out of Ten you have to play it!!!
In the start screen hit jump and character switch key continuously. This way you can get head to jump over the wall, and join head and heels right away. )
judging by the amount of comments on this page, a lot of people loved this game.
it was not the first isometric game by a long shot, neither was the c64 version the prettiest (amstrad had more colours, speccy ran a lot faster).
however, this game is really something very very very special. It has d e p t h. I completed it, all the levels and all the planets. It was my favourite ever "completion" feeling, unlike any ever experienced since. This game is so well designed, the levels are soo clever, when you complete a world, you are thinking phew - dare i go on and suffer more?? It is awesome. Better than impossible mission (which i completed), better than the last ninja series. If you can get past the monochrome graphics, and get into the game.. Im gonna have another play right now in fact. Why don't they make games like this anymore!! Awesome, 11/10.
Never got through it.
dam it I tried so hard!
9/10
One of the best games on the C64 for me.
The gameplay is just great!
and why the 2 tone speccy graphics?
but s these are the only let downs it remains brill.
just check out prince charles!!