Hunchback (video game)

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Hunchback

Developer(s)	Century Electronics
Publisher(s)	Ocean Software
Platform(s)	Arcade, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, DOS, Dragon 32, MSX, ZX Spectrum
Release date	Arcade version 1983
Genre(s)	Platform
Input methods	Joystick 2 way, 1 Button
Cabinet	Upright
Display	Vertical, Raster, standard resolution

Hunchback is an arcade game developed by Century Electronics in 1983. The player controls Quasimodo from the Victor Hugo novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

The game is set on a castle wall. The player must cross the screen from left to right avoiding obstacles in order to ring the bell at the far right. Obstacles include pits which must be swung over on a long rope, ramparts which must be jumped (some of which contain knights with spears) and flying fireballs and arrows (to be ducked or jumped). Eventually, after completing a number of screens, the player must rescue Esmerelda. If this final screen is completed, the game begins again at a faster speed.

Ports were made for most home computer systems of the time by Ocean Software in 1984. The exceptions to this are the BBC Micro version (which had already been released by Superior Software) and later ports for the MSX (1985) and DOS (1988).