Weetabix vs The Titchies

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Weetabix vs The Titchies

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Weetabix vs The Titchies was a branded game you could get from breakfast cereal maker Weetabix for £2.75 if you were part of the Weetabix Club. It was made for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad, BBC and Dragon 32.

It was a diabolical Space-Invaders-inspired game with very little originality. It utilised the 'skinhead' Weetabix characters who were fronting all of the cereal's advertising throughout much of the 1980s.

ChinnyVision has covered the Spectrum version, along with the others (excepting Dragon 32) in their newest video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afqyvTC0tQI
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Re: Weetabix vs The Titchies

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Nice video, I’d only seen the Spectrum version before. It looks like the most effort went into the C64 version for graphics, gameplay and (it’s all relative) sound.

I happened to play this recently and was also disappointed by the fact that it wasn’t the usual impossible difficulty. It meant I made progress and had to keep playing, only to lose about 9 or 10 levels in with a sense of relief.

Totally agree that it’s a wasted opportunity, the Weetabix gang could have been brought together in some kind of character swapping adventure game. If only Don Priestley got his hands on it…
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