The Adventures of Captain Comic

The Adventures of Captain Comic is a classic side-scrolling platform adventure in which the titular hero travels across alien worlds searching for valuable treasures. Captain Comic can run, jump and fight enemies while navigating colorful environments filled with platforms, hazards and hidden items. The game draws heavily on the early home-computer platforming tradition, with exploration and memorization playing important roles alongside basic action. Its simple graphics may look modest today, but the combination of open areas, enemies and collectible objects creates a surprisingly substantial adventure for its era. The Adventures of Captain Comic is particularly interesting as an early independent platform game, created at a time when one determined programmer could build an entire adventure without a giant development studio. Captain Comic proves that saving the galaxy has always been a perfectly reasonable excuse for collecting absolutely everything.