Thwocker © 1984 Activision
You control a little conductor (who happens to look like a bowling ball) who must bounce around a maze collecting musical notes for his song. Along the way you must avoid various musical instruments that are out to get you. However you can't go grabbing just any musical notes, you must collect them in the proper order. The current note type needed is shown at the bottom of the screen. If you touch the wrong type of note you will ricochet off it, send your conductor flying across the screen (usually into a waiting enemy). After collecting all the notes you must grab the treble clef symbol at the top of the maze to start the song. Once the song starts to play your character will be able to touch enemies and notes for points (think of it as a power pellet) until the song ends. After completing the song you can exit the level by touching the exit square.
Unreleased prototype.
Thwocker was one of the long lost Activision prototypes that finally surfaced when it was found a thrift shop along with some other prototypes. Like most other unreleased Activision games, Thwocker was never mentioned in any catalogs or announced at any gaming expos. Written by Charlie Heath, Thwocker was described as 'Joust with musical instruments'. According to Heath the game was only around 80% complete when development was cancelled. Thwocker (along with Kabobber) were victims of the collapsing videogame market in 1984. It was around this time that Activision decided to get out of the 2600 market and concentrate on home computers games instead.
This prototype contains graphics from the Atari 8-bit computer prototype version of Pastfinder: Explorer.
Programmer: Charlie Heath
CONSOLES:
Sony PlayStation 2 (nov.19, 2002) "Activision Anthology [Model SLUS-20588]"
Sony PlayStation 2 (2003) "Activision Anthology [Model SLES-51313]"
HANDHELDS:
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (dec.9, 2003) "Activision Anthology [Model AGB-BAVE-USA]"
Sony PSP (nov.8, 2006) "Activision Hits Remixed [Model ULUS-10186]"
Sony PSP (feb.9, 2007) "Activision Hits Remixed [Model ULES-00640]"
Sony PSP (feb.14, 2007) "Activision Hits Remixed [Model ULES-00640]"
COMPUTERS:
PC [Microsoft Windows, CD-ROM] (oct.2003) "Activision Anthology: Remix Edition"
Apple Macintosh [CD-ROM] (2003) "Activision Anthology: Remix Edition"
OTHERS:
Android (aug.30, 2012) "Activision Anthology"
Apple iPhone/iPad (aug.30, 2012) "Activision Anthology [Model 542727742]"
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