Astebros
Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game dossier
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A side-scrolling arcade adventure across floating islands
The briefing
Fungus lives peacefully on a floating island in space, but his only food—mushrooms—grows on nearby islands. Unfortunately, those islands are guarded by creatures that do not want their mushrooms taken.
Viewed from the side at an elevated angle, the game scrolls constantly from left to right. Fungus cannot stop running, so you guide him up and down the screen, jump over gaps, avoid obstacles and creatures, and collect as many mushrooms as possible. Touching a hazard or falling from an island costs one of four lives and returns Fungus to the start of the island.
Fungus was developed by Karl Hörnell and published by Players Software for Commodore 64 and Commodore C64/128/MAX.