Our next entry into the C64 archives is a previously lost Commodore 64 conversion of a Hungarian text-adventure game called Fogd a Penzt (Grab The Money). The game has been out there for some time on the Commodore 16, though a C64 version wasn’t known to exist until GTW’s Csaba Virag found a copy during some preservation work.
Within the Plus4World entry on the game, the author states:
“This was (as far as I can remember) my second game, written after Kisértetkastély. The version on Plus/4 World is probably not the original, as evidenced by the C64 POKEs in line 5. I definitely wrote this on a C16, back in 1985. I think I had one or two more adventure games which I barely remember and have not found anywhere else.”
Currently there are no other games from the author (so more could be found in the future). With this conversion, it isn’t 100% clear if the C64 edition was done by the author or by someone else. Hopefully we’ll learn more in the future.
Below you can find solutions from Commodore Vilag issue 24 and the map from issue 33. If you know Hungarian, then we hope you enjoy the game – but yet another title saved for posterity thanks to Csaba!
Contributions: Csaba Virag
