A short and strange entry that has been highlighted to us thanks to Joachim Froholt, who had a reply to a thread about mastering C64 games from a Blake Senftner. This is not the same game as by Bill Hogue.
Blake mentioned that he had created another Miner 2049er game, but without the apostrophe. He had the following to say:
“My company was literally those little square ads in the back of “Creative Computing”, like a classified ad. We used a local printer to 4-color print the game instructions, had the game cassettes duplicated by some company Chris Ross located, and we shrink wrapped the packages ourselves with a food vacuum sealer.
The game I made looks very similar to Bill Hogue’s, but my “character” looked more like a short guy. I did everything with single character graphics, I rewrote the font glyphs to become the tiles of the game, and then the game character was a single letter, probably the characters “a” thru “h” to get the 8 character animations I used for the character’s motions.”
We are assuming that Blake’s game was a clone of sorts, but possibly he might be mis-remembering the title. We hope to learn more soon, but we’ve just added a short entry for now.
Contributions: Joachim Froholt
