Before I even got the laptop, I had a desktop and I would play MONSTER MASH ! It has been some 10 years at least since I played it and I've forgotten some details...
The premise is that you play Billy * a kid in pajamas whose pet dog was stolen by the minions of Count Chuck (not a very impressive name for a vampire archfiend). He's turning all the cats & dogs in the world into monsters for his armies. (app. he doesn't bother with mice & hamsters).
Fortunantly the Monster Under the Bed is on YOUR side, and gives you a magic slingshot with a never-ending stone supply (upgrades are offered at points). He also tells you that the entrance to the Underworld is in your closet !
The game starts once you drop through the portal and land in level 1 (a graveyard with autumn leaves, tunnels,secret passages and deep crypts). You can exit once you break the locks on all the cages holding a cat or dog, releasing the pet who was waiting for transformation into an ogre or troll or whatever. Shoot all the skulls for a bonus (they scream, spew gore, and drop off the screen !). Oh, and if a skull is right above a cage, shoot the skull first. If you break the lock first, it hits the skull and you don't get the level bonus even tho the skull is sent flying screaming.
Each level has a theme (2nd level has involved tree climbing, jumping onto flying brooms, stone platforms in the sky, hard to reach targets...). , a forest, Crypts, stone caves, abandoned houses, Egyptian tomb, catacombs, sawmills, a mad scientist lab, a swamp, and starry skies. Finally you get to Count Chuck's lair facing imps,bats, pumpkinheads, .... The Starry Skies is navigated by witch's broomstick and you use power bolts instead of slingshot stones. Witches attack you...
Upgrades incl.a big rock that gets the enemy every time, a shower of stones... and are only temporary.
You get a bonus if you don't get hit at any time on a level (fat chance of THAT), or if you acheive finishing the level in record time. There are also logic problems to solve (mess up and you can't go on...)
The game is a trilogy, each disk ending with a Boss fight and then you are dropped into the next part (which requires the next disk). Oh, and Count Chuck will also send a doppelganger after you (a pile of goo that takes your form and has his own broomstick).Drive him off 3 times and he'll leave his broomstick behind so you can navigates the next level (Starry Skies).
* I can't recall his name so rather than break off in the middle of a thought, and search for the data sheets and play hints, I make one up.
The freeware version was unplayable on the next to last level, due to jumping from lamp socket to lamp socket being too precision demanding. This was corrected in the sale version.
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