Judge Dredd C64 Game insert

[Dash Decent]

See that Dredd C64 loading screen? I could do WAAAAY better than that on a basic paint program on the frikkin Acorn Electron!!! 

Lots of C64 users knew they could do better than that too.

2000AD characters were always a popular subject for something to draw; home micros obviously having a big appeal to the audience reading the prog at the time.  E.g. -

Judge Dredd: Click! - Click! - Click! - Click! - Click!
Johnny Alpha: Click!
Rogue Trooper: Click! - Click!
Slaine: Click!
Nemesis: Click! - Click!
Halo Jones: Click! - Click!
DR & Quinch: Click!

On the subject of the original Judge Dredd game (Melbourne House), I never got far but I really liked Neil Brennan's theme music for it.

[IndigoPrime]

Neil Brennen was a genius on the C64. His music for Way of the Exploding Fist is beautiful, and his score for the Usagi Yojimbo game is also impressive. Nice guy, too, when we swapped emails a while back when I was writing about C64 music for Retro Gamer.

[shaolin_monkey]

That Alpha is sublime!

Loving the Dredds too. In fact, loving all of them! 

I tried my hand at a DR & Quinch too. Unfortunately, being limited to 8 colours in Mode 2 meant highlighting and shading had to be done by stipple instead, so the end result wasn't quite as smooth.  It did teach me that mixing a colour palette on a monitor was very different to mixing acrylics though.