''Wacky Waiters'' is a

platform game A platform game (often simplified as platformer and sometimes called a jump 'n' run game) is a sub-genre of action video games in which the core objective is to move the player character between points in an environment. Platform games are charac ...

written by Eugene Evans for the

VIC-20 The VIC-20 (known as the VC-20 in Germany and the VIC-1001 in Japan) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980, roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PE ...

home computer. It was published by

Imagine Software Imagine Software was a British video games developer based in Liverpool which existed briefly in the early 1980s, initially producing software for the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20. The company rose quickly to prominence and was noted for its polished, ...

in 1982.

Gameplay

Gameplay involves controlling a waiter from one side of the screen to the other and back again, hopping in and out of lifts, and trying not to spill the drinks tray he is carrying to the beckoning customer on the opposite side of the screen.

References

*Gordon Laing
The golden years of gaming
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