''Comic Bakery'' is a computer game for the

MSX MSX is a standardized home computer architecture, announced by ASCII Corporation on June 16, 1983. It was initially conceived by Microsoft as a product for the Eastern sector, and jointly marketed by Kazuhiko Nishi, the director at ASCII Corpo ...

, made by

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in 1984Comic Bakery on Generation MSX database
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conversion was made by Imagine Software.

Gameplay

The game is set in a bakery, where the town baker tries to bake and deliver bread (

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s in the MSX version) while fighting off

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s. Pieces of bread move along a factory line while the raccoons try to eat the bread and switch off the machines. The player is required to keep the machinery running and also scare away the raccoons. If the player succeeds, the delivery truck is loaded with bread and drives off, advancing the player to the next level. Each level maintains the same format as the last, with the difficulty increasing as the player progresses through the levels.

Music

The music and sound effects for the C64 version were made by

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. The title

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has been covered by Press Play On Tape, Visa Röster, and Instant Remedy. The MSX version does not have unique music, using "

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" instead. The C64 music has also been used as inspiration for the music in the games ''

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'' (NES and Game Boy) and ''

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'' (PC).

References

1984 video games Cancelled ZX Spectrum games Commodore 64 games Fictional chefs Imagine Software games Konami games MSX games Single-player video games Video games about food and drink Video games about raccoons Video games developed in Japan Video games scored by Martin Galway {{Konami-stub