Box Art Wednesday...Boomstick Edition!

Out of the mists of 1984 comes this bit of information that I suppose was kept safely within the pages of the Necronomicon itself. There was a Commodore 64/Spectrum ZX Evil Dead computer game! Palace Software developed and published the title on a data cassette tape.

You take on the role of Ashley Williams as you try to collect the pages from the Book of the Dead while trying to protect yourself from the Evil that lies in the woods as they assault the cabin trying to 'swallow your soul'. Ash doesn't have to fight back the evil with just his cutting wit alone, he can get his hands on shovel, axes, and some good old fashioned boomsticks as well as...Excalibur? Apparently this is considered freeware now and Deadites.Net claims it is available on almost every Commodore 64 Emulation site.

I would have given some of my treasured Infocom titles to have had this in my collection back in my youth. A big thanks to Deadites.Net for the above pictures!

If any of you readers have been lucky enough to play this title, please drop us a comment below.

Good Old Reliable Jake - Evil Dead: Original Broadway Cast Album

Box Art Wednesday.

The Commodore 64 offers us a nice selection of box art for todays post, and a huge thank you to lemon64.com for the scanned covers above!

I really like the style of that Dan Dare cover art, I believe EA released two more sequels for it, and looking at the reviews on the lemon64 site it seems to have been a pretty nice game to play.

I owned and still do the James Bond cartridge for the C-64, I also remember the difficulty I had playing the Diamonds Are Forever stage. Grrr.

I've never played the Raid on Bungeling Bay but I remember staring at the ad for it...quite frankly that is a terribly menacing cover in my opinion.

Old Mr. Keeg - Douglas Pipes

So many cities to destroy and so little time.

Epyx released this little beauty of a game in 1986 for the Commodore 64 and the Apple II. Choosing from six movie monsters, Godzilla, The Glog (the blob), Mechatron, Spectra (a giant wasp), Tarantus, and finally Mr. Meringue (Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man) you would then choose your location and what type of game to play as your monster. Escape of course being a scenario where you had to get out of the city alive, or landmark where the goal was to destroy famous tourist attractions for a particular city, etc.

I remember one of the neater features for the game was after selecting your monster, location, and scenario you would enter the movie theatre and watch a few advertisements before the movie began, which would include a long crawl explaining the situation your monster was in.