Gremlins (PCB)

Gremlins

Platform: PC Boot Loader Year: 1984 Developer: Atarisoft

Gremlins is a PC Boot Loader hack-and-slay game, ported from Gremlins (A52).

Some graphics have been retouched to look slightly less blocky, the controls keep you walking until you hit an obstacle or press ENTER, and night 1 is the default (rather than night 3). Gremlins (A2) seems ported from this.

Starting with night 9, the gameplay harshly speeds up (whereas later, get-ready slows down). After you lose your last life, the current high score shows on the bottom.

Screenshots

One-time title screen. The main menu and setup. Cage the last mogwai before the (black) sun is up! Out of time. The F key may bring stunning color. CGA + F8 = just other colors.

Music

This port includes all original audio (except harmony) from Gremlins (A52) and converts its data from POKEY to PC Speaker just as it plays. Naturally, we hear only one sound at a time. Unfortunately, their priorities are fully unconverted: Your walk is annoyingly loud and cuts off more notable cues, like mogwai escaping.

Recording

To record every song once, the game was played:

1. in DOSBox 0.74 with machine=cga.
2. on a real Pentium 60 MHz with a microphone standing in front of the PC Speaker.

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
101	Start	Robert Vieira	Unknown	0:09		Download
102	Get Ready	Robert Vieira	Unknown	0:04		Download
103	Sunlight	Robert Vieira	Unknown	0:03		Download
104	Level Completed	Robert Vieira	Unknown	0:01		Download
105	Game Over	Robert Vieira	Unknown	0:09		Download

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
201	Start	Robert Vieira	Unknown	0:16		Download
202	Get Ready	Robert Vieira	Unknown	0:08		Download
203	Sunlight	Robert Vieira	Unknown	0:06		Download
204	Level Completed	Robert Vieira	Unknown	0:02		Download
205	Game Over	Robert Vieira	Unknown	0:17		Download

Credits

• Ripper: N/A
• Recorder: Professor Chaos
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer: Robert Vieira
  • Not Credited Arranger: Unknown
  • Not Credited Programmer: Unknown

(Source for composer: Gremlins (A52). Game lacks credits.)

Source verification is needed.

Game Rip

This rip is missing songs.

Format	Download
	N/A

All audio is hard-coded and requires a programmatic or log format that outputs to the PC Speaker. However, this is beyond the scope of this site.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

Pressing the S key mutes or unmutes all audio. Starting with VGA, everything is only 58% as fast. This is because the game tries to synchronize with the screen refresh, which apparently turns out different on old and new graphics hardware.

Releases

USA Title: Gremlins Platform: PC Boot Loader Released: 1984-??-?? Publisher: Atarisoft

Links

• mobygames.com/game/pc-booter/gremlins - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/225938-gremlins - GameFAQs.

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