Scooby-Doo (MicroIllusions)

A 3d style arcade adventure for Scooby and his pals. Microillusions struck up a deal with Hanna-Barbera for a series of their licences, to be worked on by Peter Ward. There were to be a series of titles including Jonny Quest, Flintstones, The Jetsons and finally Scooby Doo across the Amiga, PC and C64 – possibly sharing the same engine to get all the titles out there quickly. Microillusions made a terrible error though as they released The Jetsons to the world on the Amiga platform. They had shipped a Jetsons comic book serving as instructions with the game story background, which seemed like a great idea at the time. However, Hanna-Barbera never approved the title and were furious with Microillusions for releasing it. They revoked all their licences and this damaged Microillusions terribly – eventually contributing to them going bankrupt. As a result, most of the games never saw the light of day either. But most were complete and ready or close to ready to play.

Scooby Doo overall is a lovely graphic adventure game for kids, with some cool action sequences. The game spans 5 D64 images overall and is packed with cartoon pictures. It’s probably the best Scooby Doo game on the C64.