Purple Turtles

Purple Turtles is a video game in the action genre and published by Quicksilva Ltd. originally released in 1983. It is currently playable on Commodore 64, Commodore 16, Plus/4.

Purple Turtles (Purpilious Turtiliorum) are used in the sport of Turtle Bobbing where four of the turtles are placed in the water, in a row to make a bridge in this single screen side view game. You are the next competitor and must cross a river five times from the left, to the other side and back, bringing back a piece of fruit from a tree before a timer runs out.

What makes the sport more interesting is the fact that turtles like to occasionally move to the bottom of the river and randomly return to the surface. If they touch the water, they lose a life (three on the C64, five on the C16) and restart from the left of the river, with the loss of any fruit picked. Early levels have a single turtle moving up and down, but later levels have multiple turtles moving. Before starting the game you can select the starting level (0-9). The game is very similar to the Game & Watch game Turtle Bridge.

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