''Confuzion'' is a puzzle game developed and published by Incentive Software for the ZX Spectrum,

Commodore 64 The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas). It has been listed in the Guinness ...

, BBC Micro, and Acorn Electron. The object is to guide a spark along a fuse wire. It is similar to the 1982 arcade game '' Loco-Motion.'' ''Confuzion'' was written by Paul Shirley who later wrote '' Spindizzy''. '' Zzap!64'' magazine considered ''Confuzion'' to be the best arcade-puzzle game available at the time for the Commodore 64.

Audio track

The

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on which the game was supplied also contained an audio track also titled "Confusion", which was composed by the Band Private Property (Matt Smith Lyrics, Joanne Holt/Steve Salt Music) and performed by Joanne Holt, Matt Smith, Steve Salt, Chris Weller and Gary Seaward. Rob Hubbard translated the original track into the game's soundtrack. Rob Hubbard's version of the music is mentioned in the book Bits and pieces: a history of chiptunes by Kenneth B. McAlpineKenneth B. McAlpine (2018
"Bits and pieces: a history of chiptunes"
'' Oxford University Press'', Oxford. UK. The band persuaded Incentive Software to change their audio cassette duplication process from monophonic to stereophonic, so that the music could be better appreciated (mono was fine for the computer program data which was distributed on cassette tapes in the 80s).
Matt Smith
Ph.D. has now switched from playing music on computer games to teaching and writing books about computer games. He is senior lecturer in computing at th
TUDublin, Blanchardstown Campus, Dublin, Ireland

Joanne
married Steve, and is a teacher

is a cabinet maker in Oxfordshire. The graphic design for the cover of the cassette was created by Matthew Tidbury.

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includes a link to an MP3 file of the Confuzion theme song 1985 video games Amstrad CPC games BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games Commodore 64 games Incentive Software games Single-player video games Video game clones Video games developed in the United Kingdom Video games scored by Rob Hubbard ZX Spectrum games {{puzzle-videogame-stub