Bugaboo (The Flea), originally released in Spain as La Pulga, is a computer game released in 1983 for the Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64 and MSX. It was ported to the Amstrad CPC under the name Roland in the Caves, to exploit the CPC's recurring Roland character.
The player takes control of a flea who has fallen into a cavern, and must escape.
The game begins with an animation depicting Bugaboo, a small, yellow creature with two extremely long l...
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Bugaboo (The Flea), originally released in Spain as La Pulga, is a computer game released in 1983 for the Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64 and MSX. It was ported to the Amstrad CPC under the name Roland in the Caves, to exploit the CPC's recurring Roland character.
The player takes control of a flea who has fallen into a cavern, and must escape.
The game begins with an animation depicting Bugaboo, a small, yellow creature with two extremely long legs, jumping around on a colourful planet before accidentally falling through a crack in the planet's surface and falling to the bottom of a cavern.
The player must control Bugaboo and guide him back to the top of the cavern, and out to the safety of the planet's surface.
There are only two control keys: left and right. When a key is held down a gauge at the bottom of the screen begins to fill up. When the key is released, Bugaboo will jump in that direction, with the strength of the jump being determined by how long the key was held down. The...
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