ROX'64

This is a piece of history. A screenshot from ROX64, a small lunar lander for C64 (without rotation) where you'd have to shoot at meteors once you've landed before the moon you've landed on starts getting moonquake due to excessive amount of shocks from meteors.

Ce petit screenshot n'a l'air de rien mais il a pour moi la saveur du Chaînon Manquant... cette part d'histoire qu'il faut que je vous raconte: c'est le jeu qui m'a fait passer d'un projet de quizz géographique en texte pur à un projet mêmant PETSCII, sprites et même quelques effets son au SID. Oh, ne vous emballez pas: le jeu que vous voyez là est un titre tout à fait officiel dont je n'ai pas touché un seul byte, mais il était écrit en BASIC, et j'ai donc pu l'imprimer, l'analyser et -- au final -- le bidouiller pour remplacer le module lunaire par un Caliméro.

One interesting aspect of the game was that it was 100% BASIC, meaning you could get and print the listing, study it ... and in my case, modify it so you'd play as Calimero throwing apples to avoid getting squashed. It wasn't much, and I bet nobody would have played it more than I did while proof-testing the thing, but it was the first time I was going beyond a quizz game and actually made something with all chips of the C64. If you think about it, replace the starry sky by some massive mountain, make the asteroid look red and you've got a boss-sort encounter that would have actually fit the theme of the (yet to come Calimero) game's first zone.

Oh and the (original) game was by Jeff Minter, by the way .. the one person who wrote "Revenge of the Mutant Camels"