Headcase Hotel

Please note: The 2021 update fixes some bugs, but also reduces the strobing effect from the original. Take care to download the correct version, as the original version retains the strobe effect, so play with caution if necessary.

Headcase Hotel is an arcade adventure maze game written for the BBC Micro.

Most of the game was written over various periods of time between 1992 and 1995, with much of the development work taking place in 1995, in preparation for an end of year graphic design show.

The idea is to collect a number of items from each hotel level, before the lift door opens at the top of the screen to give you access to the next. There are 10 levels in total. Within each level are a number of collectable items, some are useful, while others are... not so useful :-)

Written predominantly in BBC Basic, with some elements of 6502 assembly language for sprite plotting, the game runs in four colour MODE 5, a low resolution (640 x 256 pixel) display which used 10k of the BBC Micro's memory.