Commando Colton

The title screen of Commando Colton
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--TO INSTALL:
Copy all of the files to desired directory. Run COLTON.EXE.

--TO PLAY:
Colton is on a top secret mission to defeat the putties. He must
fight his way through the levels to make the world safe.

FIRE - Spacebar
JUMP - Up Arrow
QUIT - Escape

After you quit, you will be given the opportunity to enter your
name into the high score table if your score was high enough.

This game was made by David Fifield.

I wrote this game starring my cousin Colton Brengosz. I think I was reading Teach Yourself Game Programming in 21 Days at the time. It's a very simple sprite-based game where you shoot darts at the bad guys. It's impossible to die.

It looks like I was using some Borland IDE to build it. The download includes a compiled executable.

The levels originally had backgrounds that I took from an After Dark screensaver package. After Dark installed a bunch of tileable bitmaps for you to use as Windows backgrounds. I don't have permission to redistribute them so I replaced them with blank black graphics. The level names make more sense with the original backgrounds. I can describe what the files were:

back0.bmp–Colton to the Rescue!
A childish superhero flying in yellow costume.
Back1.bmp–In the Jungle
Wavy green seaweed-like.
back2.bmp–Exclamation World
Garish pop-art exclamation points.
back3.bmp–Eyes only for You
Staring eyeball marbles.
back4.bmp–Holy Cow!
Standing cows in bas relief.
back5.bmp–Pipe Dream
Interlaced pipes and valves.
back6.bmp–Writing on the Wall
Childish crayon writing on the wall.
back7.bmp–Tech-NO!
Cipherpunk terminal screen.
back8.bmp–Something's Fishy...
Fish and seahorses.
back9.bmp–Gearhead
Interlocking gears.

The graphics and level names repeat after level 9.

Download

colton.zip


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