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In 1931, horror and sci-fi author H.P. Lovecraft completed his novella At the Mountains of Madness which went on to become one of his most influential tales, and has excited and disturbed readers in the decades since. 77 years later, and one of Retro Software's first BBC Micro projects was revealed - a wholly original 8-bit side-on arcade adventure inspired by Lovecraft's story, entitled Mountain Panic. After a mammoth five years of development and rare glimpses at retro computing shows around the country, Mountain Panic was finally launched on 5.25" DFS disc and emulator image at the Play Expo 2013 event in Manchester.
This eagerly-awaited adventure set in the early 1930s sees you cast as Bill, an intrepid Antarctic explorer who awakens to discover his expedition teammates missing after a violent storm, requiring you to venture out into the blinding snow to discover what has become of them ... Left with only a scrap from a colleague's notebook which mentions four pieces of a mysterious broken sign, Bill must navigate many treacherous caverns to escape.
With a rich set of screens to explore, there are eerie creatures to avoid and plenty of objects to discover and make use of, such as a rope which can be used to further progress through otherwise inaccessible locations. Mountain Panic features some of the most intricate gameplay graphics ever seen on the platform, created by a modern team of professional artists from Papa's Gong, alongside a specially commissioned cover art and loading screen.
Read more about Mountain Panic at the Papa's Gong website.
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Mode 2, full, rich, colour graphics
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Multiple screens to explore
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Adventurer can fire and climb his rope to reach higher platforms
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Items to use along the way
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HP meter depicts player's health
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Enemies include penguins, elder things and the shoggoth
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Nice loading screen and cover art!
Mountain Panic is a white label Retro Software title.
Formats, price and ordering details are available on the Pricing Structure page.
Note: anyone ordering any of the physical releases can request an emulator image to be emailed to them, when placing their order
v1.2 joystick/keyboard handling bug-fix release now available on request
Original by Papa's Gong
Programmer: Dave Footitt
Artists: Roger Coe and Chris Hogg
Mountain Panic early work-in-progress Demo #1 - .ssd Acorn DFS disc image - 2009-09-18
Mountain Panic early work-in-progress Demo #2 - .ssd Acorn DFS disc image - 2009-09-18
Mountain Panic is developed in 6502, using BeebAsm and Emacs. The graphics are created in Photoshop then run through an exporter written in C# which converts them to a format the game understands. It is tested on real hardware via the RetroClinic DataCentre, and the title page is converted using Francis' BBC Image Converter.
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[[Image:MountainPanicRSLoadingScreen.png|375px|'''RS loading screen Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
[[Image:MountainPanicPapasGongLoadingScreen.png|375px|'''Papas Gong loading screen Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
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[[Image:MountainPanicLoadingScreen.png|375px|'''Mountain Panic loading screen Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
[[Image:MountainPanicCredits.png|375px|'''Mountain Panic credits Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
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[[Image:MountainPanicTitleScreen.png|375px|'''Mountain Panic title screen Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
[[Image:MountainPanicInGame1.png|375px|'''A Strange Cave Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
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[[Image:MountainPanicInGame2.png|375px|'''In The Cave Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
[[Image:MountainPanicInGame3.png|375px|'''The West Tower Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
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[[Image:MountainPanicEurogamerExpo2013.jpg|375px|'''Mountain Panic preview at Eurogamer Expo 2013 in Sept Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
[[Image:MountainPanicPlayExpo2013.jpg|375px|'''Programmer Dave Footitt at the Play Expo launch in Oct Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
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[[Image:PanicTitle.png|375px|'''MP early preview: The familiar starting screen. Posted: Aug 05, 2009]] Posted: Aug 05, 2009'' |
[[Image:PanicCaveMouth.png|375px|'MP early preview: Entrance to the caves. Posted: Aug 05, 2009]] Posted: Aug 05, 2009 |
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[[Image:PanicStrangeCave.png|375px|'MP early preview: Avoiding a snowball! Posted: Aug 05, 2009]] Posted: Aug 05, 2009 |
[[Image:PanicEastTower.png|375px|'MP early preview: On the way to the East Tower. Posted: Aug 05, 2009]] Posted: Aug 05, 2009 |
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[[Image:MountainPanicDemo1LoadingScreen.png|375px|'''Mountain Panic Demo #1 loading screen Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
[[Image:MountainPanicDemo1LoseYourSanity.png|299px|'''Mountain Panic Demo #1 lose your sanity Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
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{{#ev:youtube|1fYjYsTnoXk}} Mountain Panic Preview Trailer for Retro Software and Papa's Gong's 8-bit winter blockbuster! Posted: 2013-05-02 |
{{#ev:youtube|g7jBEU7CvL4}} Mountain Panic BBC B early preview video Posted: 2010-08-02 |
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[[Image:MountainPanic_PosterArtwork.jpg|375px|'''Mountain Panic extended poster artwork Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
[[Image:MountainPanic_PaintedOut.jpg|375px|'''Mountain Panic poster artwork extended/no lettering Posted: 2013-10-27]] Posted: 2013-10-27'' |
You can find out more about our own Dave J / Kecske Bak's conversion of the Mountain Panic cover art into the A2 poster displayed at Byte Back 2009 and the even more massive 3m x 2m artwork used in the Retro Arcade at Eurogamer Expo 2013 (see photo above) here.
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Inlay for BBC Micro 5.25" Disc version (front) Posted: 2013-10-27 |
[[Image:MountainPanicRoughCoverInitialSketch.png|375px|'''Mountain Panic rough cover initial sketch by Chris Hogg Posted: 2013-10-28]] Mountain Panic rough cover initial sketch by Chris Hogg ' Posted: 2013-10-28'' |
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Inlay for BBC Micro 5.25" Disc version (back) Posted: 2013-10-27 |
Media for BBC Micro 5.25" Disc version Posted: 2013-10-27 |
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{{#ev:youtube|TT1dBmnUN0Q}} MOUNTAIN PANIC REVIEW - RETRO SOFTWARE - TBR SEPT Dave Edwards' AcornElectronTV video review of Mountain Panic Posted: 2013-06-29 |
{{#ev:youtube|hlOkaO0jdvg}} Homebrew RGVX Attempts : Mountain Panic, BBC Micro (Retro S RetroGamerVX's independent video review of Mountain Panic Posted: 2013-10-26 |
''2013-06-29: Dave Edwards' Acorn Electron World BBC Micro 5.25" DFS disc review''