Help ! Searching for a game ...

[Markus Schneider]

Does anyone know the name of the game where a ganster had to catch gold or moneybags in a lorry ?

Thanks.

[Sonic Wanderer]

What type of game?

Sidescrolling? Downscrolling? Top-down view?

And a bit more info on the action of the game couldn't hurt. =)

[Markus Schneider]

What type of game?
Sidescrolling? Downscrolling? Top-down view?
And a bit more info on the action of the game couldn't hurt. =)

I try to give more info on it, but after 15 years my harddisk seems to have some data bit errors

Sidescrolling three screens: middle (start), left, right !
Main character is a gangster with that typical jail suit, walking in a mine. Some guards try to catch him, while the gangster tries to collect money bags from the wall with a pick or on the bottom.
Very simple game at all, anyway a difficult one.

[Pex `Mahoney` Tufvesson]

Is it the one with three screens, no scrolling at all, rather a switch between the pages.

Two cops were chasing you, at the bottom was a gold-wagon going from left to right?

Background colour was black, with walls, ladders, elevators and slow slopes.

However, no name of it comes to my mind. Goldrush? Something with gold in the name.

Well, I'll consult my long-term memory and see if I find anything! Nope... nothing... Maybe I gave you some clues? It's not jailbreak and it's not goldrunner...

GILLIAN'S GOLD... correct?

[merman]

I think you mean GILLIGAN'S GOLD?

[Chris Abbott]

Hey, Gilligan's Gold is one of my favourite SIDs I love that original
Ragtime music And if it isn't original, I'd love to know what it's a cover
of!

Chris

[Markus Schneider]

Thanks folks, especially Pex !

It's of course GILLIANS's Gold by Ocean.
A pity we only found a Spectrum Version in the net

Does anybody know of a MAME or C64 version ?

Thanks again

[Markus Schneider]

Hmm, just found a C64 SID named Gilligan's Gold.
Is this the same ?
The Spectrum TAP i have loaded shows a Gillians Gold theme !

[DHS]

Wasn't it based on Bagitman?

[Dumper]

I have found a C64 copy of Gilligans Gold, i will send it to u.

[Pex `Mahoney` Tufvesson]

Sure! Bagitman it is! There's a C64-version, that was the one I played most.

This should be easier to find, if you want to play the original game! Thanks DHS, I can see clearly now. You made some of the fog and dirt in my memory disappear!

[Markus Schneider]

Thanks guys,

really nice I can count on you ...

and so here you can play the Java Game ... give it a go

http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/JBagman.html

[Hille]

... one of my favourite SIDs ...

Just straying off the original topic here , but now that I might have the attention Sir Chris...

...I've been wondering about something...I've listened a lot to you and Boz going nuts over the "Worst SIDs Ever"...Mainly because it's a dead funny show!!!...Anyway, just this Sunday I got my filthy paws on an original copy of Manic Miner ("C'oh dear...") in a box at a fleamarket. Went home, played it...It really does stink! Anyways, what puzzles me is this quote from you Chris, in the program:

"Then again, Manic Miner jumps around toilets all day..."

What??? There are no toilets in that game...At least none that I have found yet!! What'd I miss???

[Chris Abbott]

It's on the Eugene Evans level, I think.

Plus on Jet Set Willy, Miner Willy puts his head down the toilet
at the end, and there's ample chance to jump around that toilet because
it's on the first screen...

Chris

[merman]

Bagitman is on http://www.c64files.com

I had never heard of it before, it's an interesting example of how the early games companies would clone ideas mercilessly.