Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Computer Game
You control Mr. D.P Gumby and, understandably, you have to get back his 4 pieces of brain. This is not easy. If it was, this game would not be a game of skill and fun, now would it? There are four skill levels…
Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Computer Game is an arcade developed by Core Design, released 31 December 1990 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE and Commodore C64/128/MAX.
What Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Computer Game is
Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Computer Game is an arcade game developed by Core Design and released in 1990. It was published by Virgin Games. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Legacy Computer and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You control Mr. D.P Gumby and, understandably, you have to get back his 4 pieces of brain. This is not easy. If it was, this game would not be a game of skill and fun, now would it? There are four skill levels to this game, a piece of brain is being held on each skill and fun level. The levels are all quite different in a skill and fun sort of way, but all have different things in common. Good things like sausages, eggs, beans, spam (skill) and cheese (fun) and bad things like dead parrots. Because each level is quite different in a skill and fun sort of way, Mr. Gumby cannot always walk, so, his body is changed to suit the surroundings. Like on the first level, where he is changed into a…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Monty Python series
Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Computer Game is the first of 6 entries we hold in the Monty Python series. The next entry was Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time in 1994.
What it launched against
Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Computer Game launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, The Amazing Spider-Man.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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