The Bells

The Bells is a video game in the action genre and published by Blaby Computer Games originally released in 1986. It is currently playable on Amstrad CPC, Dragon 32/64.

This is a fairly faithful copy of the Ocean/Century arcade platformer, Hunchback. Your goal is to get through each hazard-filled screen in order to reach the bell on the right side. The first screen contains only a ball or bullet that crosses the screen, which you must jump over. However, jumping directly onto the bell rope will kill you. The next screen has gaps that you must jump over, keeping in mind the correct distance. Next comes a similar screen, only the pits are full of pikemen lowering and raising their pikes. You need to time yourself so as not to get impaled when jumping over the pikemen. On the fourth screen, the object from the first screen rushes across the screen, so your jumps across the pits must be timed so that you don't jump in its path. The fifth screen is a variation on the third, but with an arrow shooting over your head, so the timing must account for both the boobies and the arrow. The game proceeds in a similar fashion, with different combinations of projectiles, pikemen and pits.

Your bell ringer has two different jumps. One is to jump in the air so that he can avoid the projectiles, and the other is a long jump to bridge the gaps. You have to cross each screen in a short space of time, or Quasimodo will be hit by lightning.

It is possible that we have multiple downloads available when different versions exist.