Captain Sticky's Gold

Captain Sticky's Gold is a scuba diving themed action game written by Steven A. Riding[1] and published by English Software for the Atari 8-bit family in 1983.[2] Riding also wrote Airstrike for the same publisher.

Captain Sticky's Gold
Publisher(s)English Software
Designer(s)Steven A. Riding
Platform(s)Atari 8-bit
Release1983
Genre(s)Action

Gameplay
Gameplay screenshot

In Captain Sticky's Gold the player controls a scuba diver with a task to retrieve gold bars from the bottom of the ocean.

The game plays on a single screen, with most of it covered by water. There are three seabed mines on the bottom in which gold bars randomly appear. The player needs to avoid different obstacles while navigating to a gold bar, use the rope to retrieve it and then reach the surface to refill limited oxygen supply and get a new rope. Each gold bar needs to be retrieved within the time limit. Obstacles include: fish that can be shot with a harpoon carried by the player and air leeches that will drain the player's oxygen supply. In later levels an enemy helicopter will appear that will try to bomb the player as well as monster crabs, missiles and force-fields.

After collecting ten bars of gold, the player will move to the next level, and once all eight levels has been completed, the next zone will be introduced.

Reception

Home Computing Weekly in a review from 1984 praised the graphics and concluded: "If arcade games are your forte you will enjoy Captain Sticky. If not, you could find the game soon becomes repetitive."[3] Personal Computer Games wrote: "Despite the silliness, it's fun to play."[4]

Bob Chappell wrote a review for Personal Computer News and he gave the following verdict: "Colourful graphics with plenty of action and bags of sound effects (loved the theme tune) make this an enjoyable game."[5]

References
  1. Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
  2. "Captain Sticky's Gold". Atari Mania.
  3. "General knowledge to outer space". Home Computing Weekly: 30. March 1984.
  4. "Screen Test". Personal Computer Games: 93. April 1984.
  5. "Sticky habits". Personal Computer News: 38. July 1984.
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