Grell & Falla
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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(From GTW64):

Grell and Falla involves the two characters and the game is similar to Flimbo’s Quest and Wizard Willy in certain aspects. The basic story of the game is that the enemies are poisoning the soil, and your job is to clean it up and plant flowers to make the place more beautiful.

The game features some fair graphics, and some early music by 4-Mat, who many of you will know as Mat Simmonds who does the odd bit of music for Cosine nowadays.

Codemaster’s demise on the C64 scene is thought to be the probable reason of this game not being released. Poor Nick had the same problem with Bee 52, which he sold himself.. Strange that Nick didn’t try to sell this with Bee 52, maybe he didn’t like the game.

When we asked Nick, he tells GTW that it was a conversion job from the Spectrum that was not ever meant for individual release, but for a compilation that never quite materialized. Sadly Codemasters never released the game in any shape or form for reasons we don’t quite understand – mainly because they continued to release games into 1993. And its quite a good little game too!

Another strange thing is that even though this game made the Early Warning scanner of Commodore Format, the game never actually got reviewed in any magazine.

Also recently it was found that Codemasters allowed Gametap to distribute the game on their website. Really bizzare!

It’s here though, and spot 4-Mat’s early C64 music in the game (Neil Crossley style).

A nice little game, not as good as Bee 52, but nice…


http://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/grell-and-falla/
