Bugsy (video game)

Bugsy
The European Sinclair ZX Spectrum cover for Bugsy
Developer(s)	St. Bride's School
Publisher(s)	CRL Group
Engine	Quill
Platform(s)	Commodore 64 Amstrad CPC Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Release date(s)	^EU 1986
Genre(s)	Adventure, text
Mode(s)	Single player
Distribution	Floppy disk, cassette tape

Bugsy, also known as The King of Chicago, was a 1986 text-adventure game for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, and Sinclair ZX Spectrum developed by St. Bride's School and published by CRL Group exclusively in Europe. Its protagonist, Bugsy Maroon, was a Bugs Bunny-esque rabbit gangster in 1922 Chicago. The objective of the game is to be a successful criminal. Although primarily a text-adventure, it featured simple graphics depicting the current scene.

External links

CRL Group

Video games

1982	Rescue

1983	3D Desert Patrol Alien Maze Bomber Caveman Crawler Derby Day Draughts Escape from Manhattan Galactic Patrol Grand National Jackpot Lunar Rescue One Day Cricket Pandemonia Test Match The Omega Run The Orb Space Mission Zaraks

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1985	Blade Runner Bored of the Rings Endurance Formula One Juggernaut Space Doubt Tau Ceti The Causes of Chaos The Rocky Horror Show

1986	Bugsy Doctor What! Dracula Hercules¹ Pilgrim Robin of Sherlock² Room Ten Samurai The Boggit The Very Big Cave Adventure

1987	Academy Ball Breaker Book of the Dead Cyborg Death or Glory Federation³ Frankenstein From Darkness into Light I-Alien IQ Jack the Ripper Jet-Boys Last Mohican Lifeforce Loads of Midnight Mandroid Murder off Miami Ninja Hamster Oink! Outcast Plasmatron Sun Star They Call Me Trooper Traxxion Vengeance

1988	Ball Breaker II CounterForce Cyberknights Discovery International Soccer⁴ Kellogg's Tour 1988 NATO Assault Course Purple Heart Road Warrior Sophistry Thundercross Time Fighter To Hell and Back Trigger Happy Wolfman

1989	Inner Space Lancaster Professional Soccer Search for the Titanic

1990	Hellhole

Unknown year	The Great Detective

Unreleased	Enchantress Spearhead The Blues Brothers The Malinsay Massacre

Software

Fifth (1983)
Stargazer Secrets (1983)
Highway Code (1984)
3D Game Maker (1987)
2D Game Maker (1988)
Hi-Rise Scaffold Construction Set (Unreleased)

Platforms

Key people

Clem Chambers
Ian Ellery
Michael Hodges
Jared Derrett
Jay Derrett

¹ Hercules was a re-release of a 1984 video game by Interdisc

² Robin of Sherlock was a re-release of a 1985 video game by Delta 4 Software
³ Federation was a re-release of a 1985 video game called Quann Tulla

⁴ International Soccer was a re-release of a 1983 video game called Cup Final