Playing the Unofficial Cocaine Bear Game for the ZX Spectrum

Inspired by true events! This movie has been getting people excited online and now an author named Azimov made an unofficial fangame. 

Lately one of my friends bought The Last of Us game to get ready for the TV adaptation that was coming out, so I thought I'd do the same with Cocaine Bear, which is coming out in the cinema.

This game doesn't seem to have any particular goal. You can just roam around, trying not to get killed while humans run around all freaked out. It has a top down view and 15 screens to explore. You can enter fury mode for a few seconds to mangle any humans that run into you. You use up white um... power packs as the readme calls it, so you only have so many of these. You can try and get the maximum possible score when you get bored exploring and use up all your power packs. That's about it.

It's pretty hard not to get killed. Even if your ear brushes off a cactus or the water you get killed. When you press a direction the bear just keeps moving and won't stop, even when going on to the next screen and right into danger. He's kind of like Pac-Man that way. It is fun owning the humans, but you can't get the ones that shoot because they stand still, and fury mode only works for humans that run into you.

I mapped the 15 screens out very roughly and it looks like the maximum points you can get is 6,300. I could be wrong though. It's assuming you can only get one pickup per game and the most humans you can mangle at once is 3. I managed to get 1,800 points as my personal best but with patience you can get much more.

It is quite satisfying mangling two humans at once and it's the best way to get a high score. You can mangle 3 humans at once at the very beginning, but it's tough enough to line them up!

The screens make up a maze at a nice seaside setting with lots of sand. The music is a happy little tune as well. Looking forward to the movie!

If you're using a ZX Spectrum Vega, here's a configuration I made for the game. Just paste the following into a text editor and save it as CocaBear.zxk:

T:Cocaine Bear
F:CocaBear.tap
M:128
K:;Q;A;O;P;SP;;1
D:;Up;Down;Left;Right;Fury Mode;;Start Game