Gilligan's Gold (1984)
- Download the game as TAP/TZX
- Play the tape for a real Spectrum
- Run the game in an online ZX Spectrum emulator
Gilligan's Gold was released in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum 48K by Ocean Software Ltd. The development team consisted of programmers Ronald Rhodes and Keith Burkhill, with F. David Thorpe responsible for the loading screen art.
This arcade platformer supports a single player. The game features beeper music and offers control options via Kempston joystick, Interface 2, or cursor keys. It is based on the original arcade coin-op by Stern Electronics.
The game cassette was priced at £5.9. Besides the ZX Spectrum, the title was also released for the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 platforms.
The game holds an average magazine score of 61%. It received a 79% rating from Crash magazine, while Sinclair User awarded it 6 out of 10.
In the Soviet Union, the game gained recognition through numerous TR-DOS versions released by groups such as Bedazzle and Phantom Ltd. POKE codes for the game were frequently published in magazines like Micro. Cracked cassette versions by crackers such as DRJ were also common.
Found 4 cracked versions (releases) of the game
