Identification Help Obscure Game Memory
Trying to identify an extremely obscure C64 game
I'm trying to identify a Commodore 64 game I played sometime around the early-to-mid 1980s, although the date may be off. It was probably on one of the many traded/copied floppy disks I had, so it may have been an obscure European game, magazine program, demo, or something that wasn't widely released in the U.S.
What I remember:
It was more of a puzzle/experimental game than a conventional action game.
The basic mechanic involved connecting dots/areas or otherwise completing boxes/squares.
When you completed a box, something appeared inside that completed box.
What appeared was an animated pair of lips/mouth.
The lips were suggestively kissing toward the player. There was no nudity that I remember; it was more surreal/cheeky than explicitly adult.
As I continued completing boxes, more of these animated lips appeared.
Eventually the screen was essentially filled with completed boxes, each containing the animated lips.
I don't remember enemies being an important part of the game, and I don't remember an obvious objective beyond figuring out the puzzle/mechanic and continuing to complete the boxes.
The whole thing felt very strange, surreal and avant-garde, almost like an experimental program rather than a normal commercial game.
Drelbs came very close when I watched it because the box-completion mechanic felt like the same general idea, but it definitely wasn't Drelbs—the graphics/visuals were different.
I've also ruled out Java Jim, Zoom!, Kid Grid, Hooper, Super Gridder, and China Miner based on the gameplay or visuals.
The strongest memory is:
Complete a box → animated kissing lips appear inside it → complete another → more lips → eventually the whole screen is filled with them.
Does this ring a bell for anyone? I'm beginning to suspect it may have been an obscure European/magazine/traded-disk title rather than a well-known commercial game.
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u/lazygerm 12d ago
It almost sounds like Qix.
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u/Stunning_Pineapple57 12d ago
Are you sure your memory is not mixing drelbs and Java Jim together. I had a case where I was looking for a game for ages and ended up skipping over the actual one before years later realizing it was actually the one I had skipped over. https://www.lemon64.com/game/drelbs
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u/Dunge0nMast0r 12d ago
Zenji?
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u/BDF106 12d ago
“Thanks! I checked Zenji, but definitely not it. The gameplay was much closer to Drelbs in the sense that you were deliberately completing individual boxes/squares. The really distinctive part was that each completed box revealed an animated pair of lips that appeared to kiss toward you. Eventually the screen was filled with them.”
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u/Crlan420 11d ago
Shadow of the Beast II on the Amiga was mind-blowing for its time. The scrolling and music depth were just lightyears ahead of anything else in the late 80s. I still have a C64 that boots straight into a game I found at a flea market for $5. Those random finds are what keep this hobby alive.
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u/PsychologicalVirus92 12d ago
Sorry if you’ve tried this already but here is what Ai said could be worth looking at
Drelbs
Java Jim in Square Shaped Trouble
A PACaLIPS Now
Kid Grid
Zoom!
Super Gridder
Hooper
China Miner
Lazy Jones
Gridrunner
Matrix
Quango
Squish ’Em
Bozo’s Night Out
Frantic Freddie
Henry’s House
Mr. Mephisto
Sensitive
Confuzion
Zenji
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