Alf the First Adventure (C64)

Alf the First Adventure

Platform: Commodore 64 Year: 1988 Developer: Box Office, Inc.

Alf the First Adventure is the only arcade game starring Alf on a Commodore computer. It is reminiscent of Pac-Man.

Alf's Melmacian friends have crashed on earth, and cats have hidden the spaceship parts. In four levels, Alf must collect pizza to gain strength to catch four cats, then collect two parts, then the garage key, and put them one after another to Willie's garage. When the dog catcher catches Alf, Willie bails him out. After three bails in one level, Willie puts Alf on a leash and the game ends. When Willie catches Alf directly, the level restarts from scratch; only the bails and time are kept. After 24 hours, the game ends, too.

The C64 version is based on the DOS one, but much easier, even though the movement is very jumpy.

Screenshots

The title screen. Wait 13 seconds. Text. "Alf has nothing"—so deep! Willie smiles! Dragnet. After the anthem, you may enter your name and save to disk.

Music

Like in every other professional Alf game, no music from the shows is used. The C64 version features merely public domain songs (although Title is not yet recognized), mostly on one triangle wave. Perhaps for the better, since the developer did not even afford a musician to get most notes right.

Recording

All songs were recorded from the game in VICE 3.2 with C64C (NTSC). In-Game was played twice plus 10 seconds.

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Intro	Unknown	Unknown	0:13		Download
02	Get Ready	Tommy Walker	Unknown	0:01		Download
03	In-Game	Scott Joplin	Unknown	0:33		Download
04	Level Completed	Traditional	Unknown	0:14		Download
05	Game Over	Miklós Rózsa	Unknown	0:08		Download
06	High Scores	Edward Elgar	Unknown	0:51		Download

Credits

• Ripper: HVSC
• Recorder: Professor Chaos
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer: Unknown
  • Not Credited Composer: Tommy Walker
  • Not Credited Composer: Scott Joplin
  • Not Credited Composer: Traditional
  • Not Credited Composer: Miklós Rózsa
  • Not Credited Composer: Edward Elgar
  • Not Credited Arranger: Unknown
  • Not Credited Foley Artist: Unknown
  • Not Credited Programmer: Unknown

(No source. Game lacks audio credits.)

The title screen shows the names of Richard Hansen, Loren Hansen, and Kevin Scoles. Richard Hansen had already been solely credited for two C64 games with some of the same sounds. It still should be confirmed with the three who worked on sound.

Source verification is needed.

Game Rip

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Audio Devices

This game uses the computer's built-in SID chip and sounds the same on every one of them.

An official PAL release is not known.

Releases

USA Title: Alf the First Adventure Platform: C-64/128 Released: 1988-05-?? Publisher: Box Office, Inc.

Links

• mobygames.com/game/1643/alf-the-first-adventure/ - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/c64/199869-alf-the-first-adventure - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF:_The_First_Adventure - Wikipedia.

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