Grusel

Comedy Horror

This was one of the first demos I ever bought from a PD library when I became an ST user. The scene was fresh and bewildering for me back then. Plus, I had little money and took the plunge, blindly spending my pennies on something called "Grusel". I miss those days of ordering disks from PD libraries!

Thanks to the insanity of Eckhard Kruse, I've been hooked on graveyards, weird skeletons, and ghosts for over 30 years. Yes, it's silly, but this is an ST classic, and I just had to share it. Grusel can be downloaded from Eckhard's own website (don't forget Ballerburg, an outstanding turn-based strategic shooter you need to play!). This little demo is nothing less than a timeless classic. A childish demo. A masterpiece!

• Grusel can be downloaded from Eckhard's website.
• Please don't forget about Ballerburg, utter ST classic this one!

HangAbout!

Cliffhanger!

HangAbout was released in 1995 by John Hodskinson and is one of the quirkiest games I've played. Ignore what you're seeing above and read on... Three (randomly generated) mountains need to be climbed by a little stickman, with the first being relatively easy. The second is harder, and the third is a killer!

Each mountainside has ridges to which our adventurer can cling. He uses these to find a route to the top. However, if you fall too far, you suffer a messy pixelated death. It's brilliant, albeit not what you wanna see! Our stickman can use his arms to reach those parts that are a pinch out of reach. Sometimes, the route appears blocked by a gap too large, so a "megajump" can be used - but only once! Use it wisely.

HangAbout! is one of those games that first appear rubbish (with rubbish graphics). But then turns out to be incredible and extremely addictive. In fact, it's gobsmackingly brilliant, and for less than 10Kb!!

+ Download PD Games Compilation Disk #2, which features another by John called Haywire.

Turrican II - The Music

Check this out!!

Turrican II: The Music by Black (aka Scott Clifford). A music disk for both ST computers shows just how great this game's tunes are. Included is a selection of stereo remixes for the Atari STe, so what more could you want? I've recorded this video, and it plays about a minute from ten random tracks - so you should nab the download to hear all the tunes properly. It's best experienced using a real Atari STe - so crank up the volume!!

Credits and the download...

Black - Code

Jochen Hippel - Music

Sven Meier - Graphics

https://demozoo.org/productions/152964/