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Commodore 64

Purple Turtles

1982 1 Players 70% Not Rated

Purple Turtles (Purpilious Turtiliorum) are used in the sport of Turtle Bobbing where four of the turtles are placed in water, in a row to make a bridge in this side view single screen game. You are the next competitor and you must cross a river five times from the left, to the other side and back, bringing back a piece of fruit from a tree before a timer runs out. What makes the sport more interesting is the fact that the turtles like to occasionally move to the bottom of the river and back up to the surface randomly. If you touch the water then you lose a life (three on the C64, five on the C16/Plus4 version) and you start on the left of the river again with any fruit collected lost. The first few levels has just one turtle moving up and down, but later levels has multiple turtles moving. Before the start of the game you can select the starting level (0-9). The game is very similar to the Nintendo Game & Watch game Turtle Bridge, which came out a year before this did, in 1982.

Release date
December 31, 1982
Developer
Mark Moore
Publisher
Quicksilva Ltd
Players
1

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Purple Turtles

Purple Turtles (Purpilious Turtiliorum) are used in the sport of Turtle Bobbing where four of the turtles are placed in water, in a row to make a bridge in this side view single screen game. You are the next competitor and you must cross a river five times from the left, to the other side and back, bringing back a piece of fruit from a tree before a timer runs out.

What makes the sport more interesting is the fact that the turtles like to occasionally move to the bottom of the river and back up to the surface randomly. If you touch the water then you lose a life (three on the C64, five on the C16/Plus4 version) and you start on the left of the river again with any fruit collected lost. The first few levels has just one turtle moving up and down, but later levels has multiple turtles moving. Before the start of the game you can select the starting level (0-9).

The game is very similar to the Nintendo Game & Watch game Turtle Bridge, which came out a year before this did, in 1982.

Genres

Action

Modes

Single Player

Studios and credits

Developer
Mark Moore
Publisher
Quicksilva Ltd

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Release date

WorldwideDecember 31, 1982 · Not Rated

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