Uuno Turhapuro Muuttaa Maalle
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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This game is based on the movie of the same name. Uuno Turhapuro Muuttaa Maalle is a game about poor looking guy from Finland, a kind of loser, who lives in a city and one day finds a letter in the refrigerator. The letter is from his wife Elizabeth, who says that she has moved out and her lawyers will contact him. Uuno doesn't like living in an empty house so he decides to move to the countryside. There he gets to do different tasks like ploughing the fields, water skiing and run away from an angry neighbour. 

During gameplay, screen scrolls from left to right. You control character Uuno with keyboard or joystick. When ploughing a field, watch out for rocks and other obstacles. You will also earn money when you do this. When Uuno water skies he encounters water animals like ducks and birds.

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Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (Uuno Turhapuro Moves to the Country) is one of the most interesting games that was released on the Commodore 64 back in the 1980's. First of all it was the first licensed video game based on a Finnish movie, and it was also the first commercially successful game in Finland, so it does have a very quirky and special place in video game history.

The game was developed by Pasi Hytönen and published by Amersoft. Petteri Kinnunen, who at the time was working at Amersoft, produced it, and Jori Olkkonen arranged the music.

Movie license game that was typical for the era
Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle was published in 1986.[2] It was based on a movie by the same name, where Uuno Turhapuro – played by Vesa-Matti Loiri – has been gone for a week to salvage his marriage. Upon returning home, he finds a surly message in the fridge of his empty house, after which he leaves with his friends Härski Hartikainen and Sörsselssön to do emergency service work in the countryside.

Uuno Turhapuro hits a rock on the ground at the beginning of the game, and loses a life.
The game at its heart is a side scrolling platform game. This was the trend for the majority of licenses that were released during the 80's and 90's. The player has to move the character vertically, trying to avoid oncoming obstacles. The levels take you steadily forward, and although the views change, the way the game is played stays the same from the beginning to the end. The goal is to beat the three levels that are based on the movie, and collect enough money to buy a mansion.

News in MikroBitti in December 1986: “Uuno Turhapuro Moves to the Screen”
In the first level the player is pulled behind a car on a plow, in the second he has to waterski without the skis, and in the final one the player runs around in a forest.

The player has four lives, which you can lose by hitting obstacles or as you run out of energy. You have to take turns when played as a multiplayer game. Pressing the function key opens the setting where you can change the level of difficulty, among other things. The game is very challenging even when played on the lowest difficulty setting, and the player has to be accurate and have fast reaction skills, as well as have a lot of good luck on his side.

In all Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle is a really decent movie tie in game. It has a special 80's charm to it that makes it one of the more under rated games in the Commodore 64 library.

Development of the game
People at Amersoft had been throwing around ideas on developing an Uuno Turhapuro game, but it wasn’t until Petter Kinnunen joined the team that they started carrying out their plans.[3] Kinnunen had found out about a new Turhapuro movie, contacted Spede, and worked on the deal with Simo Salminen. The details were okayed by Spede.

Pasi Hytönen was chosen to make the game as he’d sent an earlier platform game to Amersoft, which was never published, but it worked as a sample for what he’s capable of. Hytönen signed a deal with Amersoft, and they gave him a couple of months to make the Uuno game so it would be published right in time before Christmas. Jori Olkkonen arranged the theme music from the movie – composed by Jaakko Salo – for the game. Teosto (Finnish Composers’ Copyright Society) gave permission for the theme music to be played in the beginning of the game for one minute.

Petter Kinnunen and Pasi Hytönen tested the game themselves. There were 2000 copies of the game made, out of which the majority were cassette versions; disk versions numbered at under a 100 copies. The game sold 1600 copies before Christmas, and it was a commercial success considering the time.

Familiar Scenes from the Movie
The game follows the movie plot quite well for being published in 1986. Even though the levels are more like modified versions of the actual scenes more than direct copies, there still are familiar elements in the game. The game concept is by Petter Kinnunen, who chose the content by watching the movie three times on a VHS tape even before the movie was released.[3]

Scene	Game	Movie	Description
Opening Scene	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle Title Screen Message.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) Letter.jpg	In the beginning, Uuno is seen returning home where he finds a message inside his fridge: “I guessed this would be the first place for you to find my message. As you can see, I’ve moved out. I won’t tell you where. My lawyers will be in touch later on. – Your ex-wife Elisabeth.” In reality, Councillor Tuura wrote the message. He had moved to the country with his wife and daughter without letting Uuno know about it.

First Level	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle First Level.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) 	In the movie, Uuno had promised his father that he’d plow the potato patch. For that, he borrows a tractor, which he accidentally loses when he jumps out while the engine is running. Uuno and Sörsselssön decide to use passing cars for pulling the plow. Uuno takes his wife to the side of the road to sunbathe in a bikini so that the passing cars would slow down and Sörsselsön would have time to hook the plow on to the car. Uuno is on the plow, ready to work on the patch.

The first level of the game is based on a scene from the movie where Sörsselsön doesn’t have time to unhook the rope from a car, and Uuno has to ride the wheeled plow behind the car over roads and fields. In the game, Uuno is seen going through a barn, and we also encounter Uuno’s former teacher and his wife. In the movie Uuno can go over the obstacles, but in the game he will faint if he bumps into the obstacle.

Second Level	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle Second Level.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) Watersport.jpg	The second level of the game is based on a scene from the movie where Uuno entertains Greta by wakeboarding, who is tailing him by accident. Just as with the first scene where the car that pulls Uuno is outside the screen, in this level you also can’t see the boat that pulls the board, just the rope.

Last Level	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle Last Level.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) Forest.jpg	The final level of the game is based on a scene from the movie where Uuno Turhapuro is looking for his father in the forest and finds his moonshine-making equipment. In the movie, Uuno is not in such a hurry as he is in the game, but some elements from the movie scene can be seen in the game, such as a tripwire and the equipment he finds at the end of the level. Some characters from the movie can be found in this level; Uuno’s father-in-law, Councillor Tuura, and Härski Hartikainen, who is infamous for his chain smoking habits.

Reward	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle Mansion.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) Mansion.jpg	If the player collects two million Finnish Marks, a picture of a house appears at the end of the game with a caption: “Uuno scraped together two million and is now a proud owner of a manor!” The house resembles the farm hands’ cottage where Uuno’s father lives, whereas in the movie we can see Uuno standing on the porch of a white manor, saying: “Oh my, one seems to suddenly have become the lord of the manor. One must start orientating.”

Familiar Characters from the Movie

Character	Game	Movie	Description
Uuno Turhapuro	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle Uuno Turhapuro.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) Uuno Turhapuro.jpg	The protagonist of the game, Uuno Turhapuro, could be called a dead-beat for lack of a better word. He won a jackpot by marrying a beautiful rich lady, and right after the wedding he got lazy. The character can be seen in many popular movies, TV shows, and in this video game of course. Uuno Turhapuro is very similar to Al Bundy from the TV show “Married With Children”, which was also popular in the 80s.

The Lady in a Bikini	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle Bikini.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) Greta.jpg	In the second level of the game there is a lady on the beach who’s dressed in a bikini and is seen waving her hand. She’s probably Greta, but she also bears some resemblance to Uuno’s wife Elisabeth. Only Elisabeth is sunbathing in a bikini in the original movie, but Greta is also seen in her bikini. As Uuno wakeboards, Greta - who also waves her hand like the lady in the game - drives the boat.

Uuno’s Father	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle Hugo.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) Hugo.jpg	Uuno’s Father can be seen not only at the end of the game surrounded by his moonshine pots, but also in the second level where he tries to hit Uuno with a thing that resembles a cooking pan.

Tuura	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle Tuura.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) Tuura.jpg	Uuno’s father-in-law Tuura, a very angry man, is seen in the third level.

Sörsselssön	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle Sorsselsson.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) Sorsselsson.jpg	In the first level, Sörsselssön is seen coming towards Uuno on his bicycle.

Härski Hartikainen	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle Hartikainen.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) Hartikainen.jpg	Härski Hartikainen appears in the third level, where he sits on a tree stump with a cigarette in his mouth.

The teacher	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle Teacher.png	Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (film) Teacher.jpg	Uuno’s former teacher and his wife can be seen at the coffee table in the first level.

Fire: Start the game
Up: Move Up
Down: Move Down
Fire + Up: Arm Up
Fire + Down: Arm Down

Game options

You can choose between the following settings during the intro screen:

F1: Players: One (yksi) or Two (kaksi)
F3: Difficulty: Easy (helppo), Hard (vaikea) or Very Hard (kaamea)
F5: Music: On or Off
F7: Sound effects: On or Off


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