Pesky Kids!

8bitAG (2022)
 

Written by Gareth Pitchford

"Your life as a security guard would be so much easier if it wasn't for those pesky kids!

Every year it's the same story. Every year those pesky kids break into Old Man Hagerty's mansion to hold their annual Halloween party. But this year it's going to be different. This year you're going to be the one having all the fun..."

Pesky Kids! is a small text adventure for the ZX Spectrum 48K and Amstrad CPC (with CP/M).

The game was written with the PAW by Gilsoft, using inPAWs by Francisco Javier Lopez and Chris Ainsley's VSC syntax highlighter. The Spectrum 48K fonts are from the Envious series by Damien Guard.

In 2023 the game was ported to run on the DAAD engine for C64, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, MSX1 and MSX2. There is also a version that's playable in a web browser thanks to Uto's jDAAD interpreter. The DAAD version should still be considered a beta release; please let me know of any issues with it.

Many thanks to Uto for his invaluable suite of development tools, including DAADready!, PAWS2DAAD, Maluva, and DRC; to NataliaPC for the MSX2 interpreter; to Infinite Imaginations and Aventuras AD for DAAD; and also to Andres Samudio of Aventuras AD for making DAAD available to the general public.

Pesky Kids! (2022) - PAWed Version

  • Pesky Kids! - v0.94 - ZX Spectrum 48K - TAP
  • Pesky Kids! - v0.93 - Amstrad CP/M - DISK

Pesky Kids! (2023) - DAAD Version

  • Pesky Kids! - v0.95 - Commodore 64 - D64
  • Pesky Kids! - v0.95 - Amstrad CPC - DSK
  • Pesky Kids! - v0.95 - Amstrad PCW - DSK
  • Pesky Kids! - v0.95 - MSX1 - DSK
  • Pesky Kids! - v0.95 - MSX2 - DSK

Pesky Kids! (2023) - jDAAD Version

  • Pesky Kids! - v0.95 - jDAAD browser version - Play Online!

(Please do not host these files elsewhere without permission as they will be updated periodically to include bug fixes. Note: Type VERSION to see which edition you are currently playing.)

 

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