Bagman is a platform

Platform game

A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...

 arcade game

Arcade game

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 released by Valadon Automation in 1982. It was also licensed to Stern for U.S. distribution in the same year. This game was also released for the Amstrad CPC

Amstrad CPC

The Amstrad CPC is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom,...

, Commodore 64

Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...

 and ZX Spectrum

ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...

 home computer

Home computer

Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming increasingly common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user...

 systems in 1984 as Gilligan's Gold; it is known in France

France

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 as Le Bagnard. The official world record for this game is held by Jerry McCloskey with a maximum possible 6 840 850 points. http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=22&pi=2&gi=3819&vi=651

Gameplay

The objective of the game is to maneuver the bagman through various mine shafts, picking up money bag

Money bag

A money bag is a bag of money used to hold and transport coins and banknotes from/to a mint, bank, ATM, milled, business, or other institution...

s and placing them in a wheelbarrow

Wheelbarrow

A wheelbarrow is a small hand-propelled vehicle, usually with just one wheel, designed to be pushed and guided by a single person using two handles to the rear, or by a sail to push the ancient wheelbarrow by wind. The term "wheelbarrow" is made of two words: "wheel" and "barrow." "Barrow" is a...

 at the surface of the mine. The player must avoid pursuing guards

Security guard

A security guard is a person who is paid to protect property, assets, or people. Security guards are usually privately and formally employed personnel...

, moving ore carts, and descending elevator

Elevator

An elevator is a type of vertical transport equipment that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building, vessel or other structures...

s. The player may temporarily stun

Stunning

Stunning is the process of rendering animals immobile or unconscious, without killing the animal, prior to their being slaughtered for food.-History:...

 the guards by striking them with a pickaxe

Pickaxe

A pickaxe or pick is a hand tool with a hard head attached perpendicular to the handle.Some people make the distinction that a pickaxe has a head with a pointed end and a flat end, and a pick has both ends pointed, or only one end; but most people use the words to mean the same thing.The head is...

 or by dropping money bags on them when they are below the player on the same ladder

Ladder

A ladder is a vertical or inclined set of rungs or steps. There are two types: rigid ladders that can be leaned against a vertical surface such as a wall, and rope ladders that are hung from the top. The vertical members of a rigid ladder are called stringers or stiles . Rigid ladders are usually...

. The player may move between the three screens which make up the level

Level (video gaming)

A level, map, area, or world in a video game is the total space available to the player during the course of completing a discrete objective...

 via shafts and on the surface.

Bagman is played using one 4-way joystick and one action button. The joystick is also used to jump out of the ore cart. The Action Button is used to make the Bagman perform the following tasks:

• Pick up and drop money bags
• Pick up and drop pickaxe
• Grab and release the ceiling beam to avoid the ore cart (this can be done while carrying a money bag)
• Placing a money bag in the wheelbarrow
• Pick up and drop the wheelbarrow

Points

Score (gaming)

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 are scored for each horizontal step the player takes, for each money bag placed in the wheelbarrow, and for each guard stunned.

Technical

Main CPU: Z80

Zilog Z80

The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog and sold from July 1976 onwards. It was widely used both in desktop and embedded computer designs as well as for military purposes...

 @ 3.072 MHz
Sound Chips: AY8910 (@ 1.5 MHz), TMS5110 @ 640 kHz (speech)
Screen orientation: Vertical
Video resolution: 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh: 60.00 Hz
Palette colors: 64
Players: 2
Control: 4-way joystick
Buttons: 1