Comments on: Fury of the Furries & Me

By: KillahMate

KillahMate — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:38:23 +0000

Although no one will ever read this I feel compelled to write it; I was one of the heretics who knew this as Pac-In-Time (in my defense, I didn’t have the Internet to inform me of my error back then, and they really are almost identical). A brilliant game, fondly remembered from my youth. The graphical artistry on display was obvious even to my inexperienced eyes (did you know that the actual levels, outside of splash screens, only use 16 and not 256 colors per level? You didn’t, because it looked amazing), and the game design was as wonderful as I could have hoped for when I started the game up for the first time. Also one of the not too many games I actually completed (took me months, but I only recall a few spots being truly hard), and I’m very proud of it. I’m sorry more people didn’t get to play it… at least I’ll make sure my kids do, some day.

By: Fury White

Fury White — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:32:02 +0000

The best game to match Fury of the Furries was perhaps original Dungeon Keeper.

By: CMaster

CMaster — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:33:16 +0000

Oh wow. Realise this is an anient article but feel the need to comment. I also had Fury of the Furries as a child and thought (and still think) the game was excellent and much deeper than most games of the time. It got a fair amount of critical praise, but limited commercial sucess I think.

I may still have the box – I threw away most of my old big game boxes, but kept a couple of the more special ones I think. I definitley still have the manual, floppy disks and code books somewhere.

The thing is, the game really is painfully hard. As a child I’ve never got beyond the forest and my attempts to return as an adult haven’t even managed that.

One thing you don’t mention about the game is how unbelieveably full of secrets and bonus levels it was.

By: Silvereye

Silvereye — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:34:50 +0000

“fluffy balls red green yellow blue swim aliens game” was what I typed in a last desperate attempt to find out the name of this game – thank you! It’s been driving m crazy for weeks. I seem to recall getting stuck on an island with a blue and a yellow… probably pathetically far into the game, I wonder if it’s still about so I can try and finish it!

By: sylvainulg

sylvainulg — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:34:39 +0000

So you were drawing furries too ^_^ It is surely a game that i’d love to see revived on a real gaming system such as the Nintendo DS, (as the always-decalibrating joypad of my childhood were all pads, and no joy) but at the same time, i fear what a commercial port would do to it. All the pixels are available to the subtle geek that knows of deluxe paint and owns the game … all the songs from Moby (now known as el Mobo) are available in their original .mod format for the Amiga version, though i definitely prefer the sound of my AdLib sound card.

Yeah. /me nostalgic too :P And fortunately enough for me, my brother has nice music skillz, is found of the game too, and did remix two of the brilliant tunes of that game.

Anyway, thanks for this furry moment you shared.

By: James T

James T — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:52:32 +0000

Oh man, that image is way better than any existing visual adaptation of Dune itself…

By: David

David — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:29:55 +0000

Does anyone have the old password list for Amiga?

I got a moment of nostalgia and plugged it all in, but couldn’t find my list. Any help would be so much appreciated.

My email is info@davemooney.co.uk.

Cheers,
David

By: Rock, Paper, Shotgun: PC Gaming’s Beadiest Eyes » Blog Archive » LucasArts games on iPhone

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:37:35 +0000

[...] I hope that, one day, all-purpose DOS emulator DOSBox will make similar headway, as I want to play Fury of the Furries on the back of my digital [...]

By: Sire404

Sire404 — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:22:37 +0000

I loved this game, mostly because of how much fun you could have once you mastered the grappling techniques of the green furball. The other characters just felt like a waste of time until you got to play green again. I wonder if this contributed to me later becoming a master grapple-monkey in Quake 2 CTF… :)

By: Emil

Emil — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:43:36 +0000

“How about a next gen Walker – giant ED209 versus teeming hordes of comedy Nazis – that could be a win.”
Hahaha! Yes!

By: Caaln

Caaln — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:45:59 +0000

This is eerily familiar. Fury of the Furies was the first game I ever owned. And though it seems rather pathetic now, I don’t think I ever actually made it even a 3rd of the way through the game, because the damn bees in the forest kept blowing me up. I’ve since found little to compare with bouncing a ball of fur frenetically around a secret room in a desperate attempt to collect any remaining coins/plates before the timer runs out.

The Pac-Thing, and Tiny sequels strike me as Abominations though, and the world seemed a brighter place before I read this article. So RPS be damned. (Although having said that, I have a feeling the main reason I got it was so I could have something to trade for my friends copy of the Jurassic Park game – what seedy origins PC gamers seem to have.)

I still have all my old disks on a random corner of my hard-drive actually. To Dosbox!

By: WCAYPAHWAT

WCAYPAHWAT — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:07:52 +0000

Jesus….I can’t remember the first game i actually owned…. basicly everything on my 486 was copied….or just demos. I’m ashamed to say i think it was tiberian sun. followed closely by Unreal, then Mechwarrior 4……i came in slow…..but god damn i was in love with Doom and Commander keen.