Escape from Happy Hills: Parrish Origins
A downloadable Happy Hills
Furillo Productions presents / Furillo Productions presenta:
"Escape from Happy Hills: Parrish Origins". A funny and exciting horror survival adventure for Halloween on your ZX Spectrum 128k.
"Escape de Happy Hills: el origen de Parrish". Un divertido y excitante juego de horror y supervivencia interactivo para disfrutar Halloween con tu ZX Spectrum 128k.
Technical Info / Datos técnicos:
- Furillo Productions are / Furillo Productions somos: IADVD & Molomazo.
- Original concept & characters / Idea original y personajes: Molomazo & IADVD.
- Design & graphics / Diseño y gráficos: Molomazo & IADVD.
- Code & FX / Programación y FX: IADVD.
- Testing / Testeo: Víctor Llamazares (many many thanks! / ¡mil gracias!).
- ZX Spectrum .tap file Music & Sound Effects / Música & efectos de sonido en descarga .tap: IADVD.
- With gratitude to / Con agradecimiento especial a: Sergioᵗʰᴱᵖᴼᵖᴱ for his awesome teachings / por sus valiosas enseñanzas.
- Special thanks to / Con agradecimiento especial a: our dear friends El Spectrumero - Javi Ortiz and André Leão (Planeta Sinclair) for his continous support to our games and the 8-bit retro scene and to Fran Kapilla (Sequentia Soft) for his valuable feedback about the MuCho 128k engine. / nuestros estimados amigo El Spectrumero - Javi Ortiz y a André Leão (Planeta Sinclair) por su continuo apoyo a nuestros juegos y a la escena retro 8 bits y a Fran Kapilla (Sequentia Soft) por sus valiosas propuestas y revisiones del motor MuCho 128k.
- Also special thanks to Juanjo Muñoz and CAAD magazine team for the continuous effort to give visibility to the 8-bit adventure games. / También un agradecimiento especial a Juanjo Muñoz y al equipo de la revisa CAAD por su esfuerzo continuo para dar visibilidad a los juegos de aventuras de 8 bits.
Made with our customized version of the MuCho engine by Jari Komppa adapted to 128k with in-game music, full screen images and extra visual fx effects / Hecha con nuestra versión personalizada del motor MuCho de Jari Komppa adaptado a 128k con música intra-juego, imágenes a pantalla completa y efectos visuales extras.
Music made with WYZ tracker by Retroworks / Música realizada con el "tracker" WYZ de Retroworks.
The game contains some homages to some horror and sci-fi series and movies of the 80's: do you find them? / El juego contiene guiños a varias series y películas de ciencia ficción y horror de los 80: los has encontrado?
MANUAL IN ENGLISH
IMPORTANT!
There are four downloadables: the .tap English version and the .tap Spanish version with just one life (if you die you start the whole game again) and with 4 lives (if you die you will automatically restart from the latest safe point). All for free. If you like them and you feel that you want to make a donation, it will help us to continue doing free games. But the most important thing is your feedback: please let us know your thoughts about the game below, at the comments block(*). Cheers!
(*) Grammar and syntax corrections about the texts are also very welcomed! we are not English-spoken natives and probably they are not very accurate.
Story:
Amusement parks… who hasn’t been to one? Kids dive into the bumper cars or hop on the Ferris wheel with the same speed they tear into cotton candy, one mouthful after another. Fun places, yes, but also… sometimes dark and forgotten. In the shadows of these places, terrifying beings from other dimensions lie dormant, just waiting for some unsuspecting soul to wake them.
In a forgotten corner of Bernard Valley stands the abandoned amusement park, “Happy Hills,” a place long haunted by creepy tales. Rumor has it a sorceress ensnares anyone daring enough to enter at night, leaving behind a trail of unsolved mysteries. Many young people have vanished, and the legend lives on.
Just in this very amusement park, a young teenager named Peter Parrish faces his first Halloween challenge, after betting with his school friends to spend a night in the haunted park, eager to prove his courage in front of Penelope, his secret crush. This one night will transform our future anti-hero, as he ventures for the first time into a universe where beings from other dimensions will forever change his destiny.
This story will answer many of the still-unanswered questions Peter’s diehard fans are dying to know: Was he always this much of a goof? Has he always had that epic afro? Since when has he been watched by beings from other realms? An absolute must for anyone looking to tie up loose ends and dive deeper into the mysteries of the Parrishverse!
In Happy Hills, the park’s nooks and attractions hide secrets that will change Peter’s life forever. Are you ready to join Peter in this madness?
Controls:
Q: up.
A: down.
SPACE: select an option.
Enjoy!
MANUAL IN SPANISH
¡IMPORTANTE!
Hay cuatro archivos descargables: el .tap de la versión inglesa y el .tap de la versión en castellano con una vida (si el protagonista muere el juego empieza desde el principio) y con 4 vidas (si el protagonista muere comienzas automáticamente desde el último punto seguro). Todo gratis. Si te gustan y sientes que quieres y puedes hacer una donación al descagar, nos ayudarás enormemente a seguir haciendo juegos gratuitos. Pero lo mas importante es que nos digáis vuestra opinión y si os ha gustado: por favor dejad vuestros pensamientos sobre el juego abajo, en la zona de comentarios (*). ¡Muchas gracias!
(*) También se agradecen correcciones de sintaxis o gramática de los textos en inglés, ya que nuestra lengua es el castellano y lo mas seguro es que a veces no suenen naturales.
Historia:
Parques de atracciones... ¿quién no ha ido a uno? Los niños disfrutan de los coches de choque o se suben a la noria con la misma velocidad que se comen el algodón de azúcar uno tras otro. Lugares divertidos, sí, pero también... a veces oscuros y olvidados. En la penumbra de esos lugares, seres terroríficos de otras dimensiones duermen a la espera de algún incauto que les despierte.
En un rincón olvidado de Bernard Valley, se alza el parque de atracciones abandonado "Happy Hills", un sitio que ha sido siempre objeto de historias inquietantes. Se dice que una hechicera atrapa a cualquiera que ose entrar por la noche, dejando tras de sí un rastro de misterios sin resolver. Muchos jóvenes han desaparecido, y la leyenda sigue viva.
Justo en este parque abandonado un adolescente llamado Peter Parrish se enfrenta a su primer reto de Halloween, cuando hace una apuesta con sus amigos del colegio para pasar una noche en el parque encantado buscando demostrar su valentía ante Penélope, su amor platónico. Este hecho cambiará a nuestro futuro antihéroe, que se adentra por primera vez en un universo donde seres de otras dimensiones alterarán para siempre su destino.
Esta historia responderá a muchas de las preguntas todavía no contestadas sobre Peter que sus fan fatales desean saber: ¿fué siempre así de gañán? ¿tuvo siempre ese pelazo afro? ¿desde cuando era vigilado por seres de otras dimensiones? ¡Definitivamente, una historia que responderá a todas esas preguntas y atará muchos cabos sueltos entre las historias del Parrishverso!
En "Happy Hills", los recovecos y atracciones esconden secretos que cambiarán su vida para siempre. ¿Estás listo para acompañar a Peter en esta locura?
Controles:
Q: arriba.
A: abajo.
ESPACIO: seleccionar una opción
¡Diviértete!
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Comments
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Nice graphics and atmospheric music, fits this game well. I included the game in my new "Gameplay of New ZX Spectrum Games from November 2024" video, along with other recently released ZX Spectrum games.
Hi! Many many thanks for trying the game and adding it to your review. Cheers!!
Nice game!
Thanks for giving visibility to the game! Best regards :D
Nice ! Excellent Furrillo.
Hello! Thanks for taking your time showing our game, cheers!!
Got some gameplay up here :D
Hey that was awesome! Thanks for playing! Cheers :D
Great work! The graphics are excellent, the story unfolds as it should and the overall feeling is even better than your previous games. I probably would prefer a more spooky soundtrack, but that's just me. One thing though: is it possible to add a save game or password system so that the player can continue the game without having to go all the way again when he loses?
Hi, thank you very much for your kind words! Furillo IADVD here. About the music, yeah I understand your point :D I tried to make some loops with well known tunes and some of my own songs... and I think the mood is there more or less, but yeah it could be more spooky :D . The point about saving games... yes I was thinking about it... but I am not sure if I have enough memory to do so, probably if I add (i.e. our former game The Doom of the Pond has it) like 3 lives, it would be easy to play it. The Doom of the Pond solution was: you die, then the "bad end" screen appears, and, depending on the times you died lets you go back to the last moment you took an option, so you can avoid dying by selecting another one. This happens up to three times, and when you die again, you die definitely. I can put something like that... probably I will have to remove some phrases in order to free enough bytes to do so (I am using almost any -if not all the- available bytes for texts and logic). We are preparing a cassette tape of the game so I will try to add that feature to the master of the cassette tape and I will try to publish a new .tap later on (if possible due to the available space). Cheers and thanks for the feedback!
Thank you very much for considering the 3 lives fix. Of course there's a workaround for the lack of the saving option, one can always play the game on an emulator and save snapshots of his progress, although it's a bit like cheating. Once again thank you for your great game and congratulations on the amazing artistic work!
Hello again! I uploaded two new .tap files with the 4 lives version in English and Spanish. So now there are four downloadables: the .tap English version and the .tap Spanish version with just one life (if you die you start the whole game again) and with 4 lives (if you die you will automatically restart from the latest safe point). Please enjoy it! Cheers and thanks for the feedback! :D
Thank you very much! I'm going to the downloads right away!
Juego comprado, amigos de Furillo otro peazo de juego ETPA que os habeis "cascao" y con mi personaje favorito Parrish jejeje. Un abrazo y a segucreando mas juegos de este nivel. Sois de los más grandes, un fuerte abrazo
Gracias por el apoyo ;) +1 compa!! :D
El nivel de detalle alcanzado en este juego es realmente bueno... Y a nivel gráfico, lo habéis trabajado genial. ¡Enhorabuena!👌🏻
¡¡Gracias por comentar!! Como te dije por Twitter es un gran halago viniendo de ti que tienes unas obras de arte de juegos. ¡Abrazotes!