C64 Game Memories - Revisited 30+ Years later : B.C.Bill

An early C64 release by Imagine, B.C.Bill is a pretty obscure title and not one of the best loved games but I remember it as a kid as the game where you bash women over the head and drag them back to your cave.

Yes, really...

I guess this would not be made today but there's actually a decent game behind it all. You play a caveman B.C.Bill whose main tasks are get wives, food and babies.

The sound is simplistic (was there any good use of the sid-chip in the early years?) and the gameplay is on one static screen with reasonable cartoony graphics for 1984 and only changes between summer and winter.

The aim is to build a family and feed it whilst keeping it safe. You have your cave at the top of the screen, a fire at the bottom and you have food (with legs!) and dinosaurs and possible wives roaming around the screen in the middle.

You can bash the cavewomen, drag them back to your cave and make them your wife, produce babies which you then need to feed so you need to club your food to death too but you must cook it on the fire before putting it in the cave. This of course adds to the likelyhood you'll die on the way.

Infact B.C.Bill is very much like a 3D prehistoric frogger I guess.

Now, i'll say it again, it is very not PC and would probably attract attention these days but it was a ton of fun at the time.