Zamzara
Alternative title: "Bahnzy" -- Italian Title
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Zamzara is a side-scrolling platform shooter in which the player controls an alien of the same name. The object of the game is to escape from a laboratory before a bomb explodes. You have little time to trek through the lab to finally get to your ship, which you need to leave the complex. Along the way you'll encounter a bunch of nasty aliens and monsters which you will need to kill with your large arsenal of weapons. You are armed with fire weapons such a laser gun and rocket launcher.

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Description

The mission

It is a totally normal day on a totally normal alien research base. The sun glows green in a purple sky and the alien crew pursues its normal course of the day when suddenly a blazing hostile fighter squadron plunges from the sky and takes over the base. The automatic self destruction mechanism is instantly initiated.
Flee from the laboratory complex before the time bomb explodes. You have exactly 15 minutes to fight your ways to the rescue ship with which you can leave the complex.

Design

The game consists of 29 horizontally scrolling levels which are connected by teleports (EXIT). The graphics are not very coloured, but in return they offer nice colour gradients. Up to 40 obscure sprites move smoothly over the jitter-free scrolling background, an atmospheric title tune and the fitting FX accompany the game.

Hints

Controls
P  = pause game
←  = abort game
F1  - set rapid fire gun / 50 shots per collected icon
F3  - set photon laser / 25 shots
F5  - set nuclear laser / 10 shots
F7  - set net mine / 8 shots
SPACE  - set missiles / 1 shot

Joystick left / Joystick right = walk left/right
Joystick left forwards / Joystick forwards / press fire button = jump left/up/right
Joystick forwards = float upwards (pull forwards several times shortly after the other)
press fire button = fire weapon

To trigger a special weapon (F3, F5, F7) keep the fire button pressed until the loading bars (in the control panel) are full, then let go of the fire button.
Points
The size of a monster is proportional to the received points when you destroy it (the bigger, the more points).
If you collect a gen bottle you will get 100.000 points.
After 10 collected bottles you get an extra life.

Solution

Cheats

You acitviate the cheat mode with the following key combination:
COMMODORE  + SHIFT LEFT  + SPACE  + SHIFT RIGHT  + RETURN 
Those, for whom this is not enough, can also enter the following POKEs with the help of a Freezer cartridge:

POKE 12303,173:POKE 12322,173 - unlimited lives
POKE 5014,173:POKE 9825,173 - unlimited energy
POKE 10682,173 - unlimited time
POKE 5847,173 - unlimited missiles
POKE 6424,189 - unlimited special laser
or those from Mogelpower Language German

Critics

Werner: "Nice little game - 7 points from me (I cannot understand the 3 points from the C64games vote!)"
H.T.W: "Jukka Tapanimäki has created here, despite the problems that Hewson created him, (this game was originally based in a totally different genre, s. link "GTW64 - Zamzara-Preview"), a very stylistic game, whose graphics remind of H.R. Giger. The low difficulty grade of the levels at the beginning is slowly raised in the course of the game and the enemy formations partially almost act "intelligent". Altogether a game that cannot reach the class of Turrican, but also has its qualities".


https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Zamzara
