Karnov
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Karnov, the fire-breathing Russian, is seeking the Lost Treasure of Babylon. He runs, swims, jumps, climbs, and flies through nine levels of gameplay.



Trivia

Karnov's full name is "Jinborov Karnovski"



A closer look at the decrypted program binary shows Karnov's program flow:

UPDATELOCS
POSTHITS
DOCONTROLS
CHECKTRIGGERS
PRE-KARNOV
THINKCYCLE
POST-KARNOV
SCROLLVIEW
DRAWCYCLE
SCROLLUPDATE
ERASECYCLE


So, if you want to write your own video game, the above serves as a nice template. :-) Some cute error messages are also in there:

sprite bummer!
Total loss of precision.
Partial loss of precision.


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Description from the packaging:

Karnov, the fire-breathing Russian, is seeking the Lost Treasure of Babylon. He runs, swims, jumps, climbs and flies through nine levels of game play. Countless bizarre enemies of various sizes and strengths are out to prevent Karnov from finding the treasure!
