Computer Games
Alternative Software released a computer game based on Count Duckula called - No Sax Please, We're Egyptian!. In the game, Igor, Nanny and Count Duckula have decided to search the tomb of the great Pharaoh Upanatem (Up-n-at 'em pun) to find the Mystical Saxophone. What they do not know, is they have brought along some unwanted guests in the shape of the Crow Brothers.
The game was a basic jump and run platform type game at the start the castle was transported to an ancient Pyramid. Then, you had so long to go through the castle evading the various baddies, inside the castle to retrieve the mystic sax before the Count's castle automatically returns to Transylvania leaving you stranded in Egypt.
The title of the game was a parody on the title of a British comedy play No Sex Please, We're British!.
The game was available for various 8-bit computers such as the ZX Spectrum, C64 & Amstrad CPC and was also released as a Kid's Pack with other TV shows that Alternative Software had turned into games - Postman Pat, Sooty and Sweep, Count Duckula, Popeye 2, The Wombles and Superted. Alternative Software are one of the few software companies of the 80's who still survive today as an independent software producer.
There was also a sequel in 1992, which was poorly received.
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