The Adventures of Captain Comic is a rather simple latform style of a game. It is fun and features a shallow learning curve that almost any aged or experienced gamer can learn how to play quite quickly. There are not a lot of controls to master.
The story line is about a pixelated guy named Captain Comic. This "superhero" must recover three luxuries on the planet of Tambi that have been stolen. Captain Comic is armed with nothing but his blaster that somehow works off of what the guy actually drinks (strange and does not make much sense, but nonetheless that is how it works).
These three items he has to recover are just lying around the game along with the other items that help you along with your journey. Blasta cola helps with your fire power. Shields help with your health. The boot allows you to jump higher. The corkscrew allows you to shoot enemies below your normal line of fire. The magic wand will allow you to teleport a few feet ahead which can be useful in going through walls and getting past enemies. Other areas in the game require a lot of calculated jumping. The key allows you to open doors. The lantern allows you to see in the dark (you will not need this item until the end of the game
when you go into the castle, hence you don’t receive this item until just before you head to the castle) and each time you recover a stolen treasure you gain a new life.
The three treasures are gems which you recover on the moon, a bag of gold or something like that which you recover in the underground caves, and a gold crown which you recover at the end in the castle; once you recover the crown the game ends.
This was an enjoyable game when I was six years old. I searched out this game now to try and play it again hoping it would keep its same charm. Of course, by modern standards, it just does not stack up to the great games that have come out since. The graphics are very limited and the sound is cheesy compared to modern games, but most people who download this will be fans of CLASSIC games, and therefore will find it enjoyable. This game does have a very short time span with no save spots. It runs more along the line of an arcade style of a game although I believe it had been a DOS PC game as well as a Nintendo NES Game. This was a rather short lived game and is a perfect lunch time waster of time!
