Our next entry might be a case of misinterpreted title, but we’ll include it within the archives for the time being.
Thanks to Vinny Mainolfi, we learn that there was apparently to be a Cuthbert in the Tubes game released on the Commodore 64, created by Microdeal and announced in the Buzzwords section of Your 64 magazine in October 1984.
The segment talks of Cuthbert navigating his way through 210 screens, where you have to find your way out of a labyrinth of underground pipes. Each new screen is a new screen, and you have to find a key to unlock the door before moving onto the next. Apparently, there is a mini-arcade game lurking inside each room – but was the journalist just suggesting that each room would have its own set of challenges?
Already its beginning to sound like Cuthbert in the Tombs, but its the mention of ghosts and “dastardly saxophones” which make you wonder if the journalist got “Tombs” mixed up with “Tubes”!
We think that is exactly what has happened, but we’ve added an entry for historical purposes. So if anyone else finds the article talking about a “Cuthbert in the Tubes”, then we can say that we’ve already got it covered ;-)
However – wouldn’t it be amazing if there was indeed a Cuthbert in the Tubes!
Contributions: Vinny Mainolfi, Stephen Stuttard
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