Captured (video game)

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Captured was a Computer Game for the Commodore 64; It was released in 1986 by the Swedish Greve Graphics. The programmer was Bengt Caroli, The graphics was by Nils Hård, the Music by Lars Hård and the genre was Platform.

1 Plot
2 Objective
3 Controls
4 Music
5 Curiosity

[edit] Plot

The game was about the famous Soldier One, who wakes up with a throbbing bump on the back of his head, finding himself in a mysterious base full of dangerous boobytraps and beasts. He notices dried blood on his right hand which appears not to be his own. He finds a note in his pocket which says "find the security code to the door to escape but beware of the beasts!"

[edit] Objective

The task of Soldier One was to escape from this large building. He could find the pieces of the security code in a room called "The Chamber of Death". He would have to protect himself from the manies but grub the digits. when he would've find one, he would be able to escape.

[edit] Controls

The Screen view would have shown the soldier walking from left to right and from down to the upper levels. Soldier one could have been steered with the joystick on port 2 only. He could jump by pressing fire. To fire a laserpower, which would have annhilathed all the enemies in the screen, he would have to position straight forward, pull the joystick down and press fire. to jump upwards the Soldier would have to be placed straight and the fire button would have to be pressed.

[edit] Music

The music was a particularly spinning-obsessive solfa with a steady bass-line and a jumping up-and-down melody, claustrophobic rhytm and repeated leading tune.

The first Screen of Captured

[edit] Curiosity

The game was quite famous in Europe in the downing era of the Commodore 64; there was a version also for Commodore 128; The game was so popular that people would start call it with nicknames: in England it was "Leaping Man", in Italy "L'Uomo Che Salta" (again the Jumping Man). An Australian rock band called The RedOysters covered the main theme.