QotD: What A Character
Who is your favorite video game character?
Submitted by Korgoth.
Punchy - was totally addicted to this Donkey Kong-ish style game which involved a Punch and Judy character back in 1984. This was on our old Commodore 16 and I used to hook this computer up to the telly. And you have to know basic computer language to operate these things and the programmes ran via tapes on a little mini tape deck - we didn't even have floppy disks.
I once played Virtua Fighter on an arcade machine - but I don't remember being enthralled with anything the way I was gripped by Punchy. Must have spent hours on that game. I managed to get to quite a high level too. Poor fella got hit over the head many times with a bat or got a custard pie thrown at him when he failed to overcome the obstacle.
