Drol
Alternative title: Trol  (working title)
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Drol is a platform game where you play a cute robot that can fly and shoot. Your goal is to rescue children that are wandering around each level. The levels consist of rows of platforms, with gaps which can be jumped through to go up or down a vertical level. The creatures to avoid and shoot vary from strange hopping, beer-belly aliens, to demons, snakes, and axes flying through the air (we never do find out who's throwing those axes!).

Like Defender, Drol incorporates a "radar" at the top of the screen, so you can find the children and dodge incoming baddies.

Alternate Titles
"Trol" -- Working title

Trivia

The was originally named Trol. Brøderbund Software, Inc. suggested the final name Drol as in droll.

In 1991, unofficial 16-bit version (and only) for Commodore Amiga was released by Cachet of "X-Copy" disk copier software fame with enhanced graphics and sound. Programmed by Jörg Meenen, Holger Graefe and graphics by Sebastian Dosch. 

The author, Aik Beng, only credited himself using his two middle names. His full name is Benny Aik Beng Ngo, the brother of Tony Ngo. Drol (and Bandits) were independently developed and then published through Sirius and Brøderbund, respectively. Benny Ngo developed Drol while he was attending college. In fact, in the early days, quite a few games were developed by students then published through companies such as Sirius, Broderbund, Sierra, etc.

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Description from the packaging:

Humor, action and suspense.
Enter the funny, challenging and suspenseful dream world of Drol- where a little red-haired girl and her propeller-beanied brother await your rescue. They have been lured by a witch doctor's curse into the multi-leveled ruins of a lost civilization. Mesmerized, they wander aimlessly through the scrolling underground corridors, oblivious to the dangers around them.

It's your task- as a hero equipped with a rocket backpack and full-screen radar scope- to dodge hopping scorpions, monsters and snakes, flying turkeys, swords, daggers, arrows, magnets, witch doctors, and vacuum cleaners(!) in your attempts to reunite the children with their mother.
Drol's wry sense of humor and amazingly detailed cartoon imagery make this game a charmer!

An arcade action game.

Many levels of play.

Joystick controlled.

Includes victory cartoon!


http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/drol
