Quest for Tires

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 21:12

Developer's description:

"A Remake of the Commodore 64 classic "BC's Quest for tires" (1983, Sierra On-Line). You control Thor the caveman who is traveling through the lands on a stone unicycle, trying to rescue a helpless lady, Cute Chick, from an evil dinosaur. On the journey you will encounter many kinds of dangers, such as logs, lakes, rolling stones, and of course Thor's arch-enemy, Fat Broad.

Two players can play simultaneously using a split screen mode, racing to rescue Cute Chick before the other player does.

The game is freeware and only 5 megabytes in size, so why not go ahead and give it a try"

Developer: Derbian

Download: http://www.freewebs.com/derbian/quest/

Download size: 4.4 MB

Year: 2006

Status: Freeware, but we will have to check if we can host it...

Scythe · Post by **Scythe** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 22:29

Huh. Kinda reminds me of Moon Patrol.

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 22:37

I just saw that you can also play with the classic graphics. That's so much cooler!

Post by **Chroelle** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:48

Amamzing job at finding this! I totally forgot about this piece of jewelery!

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 16:33

It wasn't that hard. Pager mentioned that it is sad that there is no remake of this game. I just remembered that I saw one a while ago. After that I just used Google...et voila!

Scythe · Post by **Scythe** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 16:39

So, is there a remake for Moon Patrol as well?

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 17:00

Yes there is! Will open a thread for it...

Pater Alf · Post by **Pater Alf** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:12

Gameplay of "Quest for Tires" was never very exciting. Jump and crouch all the time and try to reach the stoneage chick at the end of the game. It stays the same here and I think I can hardly blame the remake for this.

The game plays fine with the modern graphics, but it takes away some of the nostalgic feeling. So I switched to the retro mode after a while just to recognize that the sprite collision is worse in that mode and so I ended up loosing lots of lives, because the game said I hit obstacles when in fact I didn't.
The need to use the speed-up key together with a direction key to control your speed,makes it hard to maneuver from time to time. But I think I had the same problem with the original game.

2-player mode is a nice idea, but I'm not sure I will use it very often.

So in the end "Quest for Tires" is a true remake that has the same flaws and strengths than the original game.