''Crazy Comets'' is a 1985

multidirectional shooter Shoot 'em ups (also known as shmups or STGs ) are a sub-genre of action games. There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up; some restrict the definition to games featuring spacecraft and certain types of charac ...

programmed by Simon Nicol for the Commodore 64 and published by

Martech Martech Games was an early video game publisher based in Pevensey Bay between 1982 and 1989. It published a number of successful video games for the emerging home computer games marketplace, including BBC Model B, Sinclair ZX81, Sinclair Spectrum ...

in 1985. The game is a clone of Gottlieb's 1983 ''

Mad Planets ''Mad Planets'' is a multidirectional shooter released in arcades in 1983 by Gottlieb. The player controls a spaceship, which can be moved and rotated independently, to fend off angry planets and moons attacking from all sides. It was designed a ...

'' arcade game, even using the same logo treatment with "Crazy" and "Comets" replacing "Mad" and "Planets" respectively. The two music tracks and the sound effects were produced by

Rob Hubbard Rob Hubbard (born 1955 in Kingston upon Hull, England) is a British composer best known for his musical and programming work for microcomputers of the 1980s, such as the Commodore 64. Early life Hubbard first started playing music at age seve ...

. ''Crazy Comets'' was followed by a 1987 sequel, also programmed by Nicol, ''

Mega Apocalypse ''Mega Apocalypse'' is a multidirectional shooter written by Simon Nicol for the Commodore 64 and ported to the BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum. It is the sequel to '' Crazy Comets''. Both games are clones of Gottlieb's 1983 arcade game '' ...

''.

Reception

Zzap!64 ''Zzap!64'' was a computer games magazine covering games on the Commodore International series of computers, especially the Commodore 64 (C64). It was published in the UK by Newsfield Publications Ltd and later by Europress Impact. The magazine ...

'' praised the game for being an uncomplicated example of the genre. ''Happy Computer'' said the music alone was worth the price of admission.

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* {{Shmup-videogame-stub 1985 video games Commodore 64 games Commodore 64-only games Multidirectional shooters Video game clones Video games developed in the United Kingdom Video games scored by Rob Hubbard Martech games