A spanky new remake of the classic Jon Ritman & Bernie Drummand isometric adventure.



Head Over Heels is an arcade adventure, released in 1987 for several popular 8-bit home computers, and subsequently ported to a wide range of formats. Originally, the working title for the game was Foot And Mouth.

Visually, Head Over Heels bears a number of similarities with Ultimate Play The Game's Knight Lore and Alien 8. It uses an isometric engine that is similar to the Filmation technique first developed by Ultimate. Head Over Heels is the second isometric game by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond, after the Batman computer game.

The game introduces an original concept: the player controls (initially separately) two characters instead of just one. The two characters have different abilities (Head can jump twice as high, control himself in the air, and fire doughnuts from a hooter to paralyse enemies; while Heels can run twice as fast, climb certain staircases that Head cannot, and carry objects around a room in a bag), which become complementary when the player combines them together after about a sixth of the game. Compared to its predecessors, the game offers unique and revolutionary gameplay, more complex puzzles, and more than 300 rooms to explore.

Drummond contributed some famously surreal touches, including robots (controlled by push switches) that bore a remarkable resemblance to the head of Prince Charles on the body of a Dalek. Other surreal touches include enemies with the heads of elephants and staircases made of dogs that teleported themselves away as soon as Head entered the room.

In 1994 its authors wrote Monster Max; another isometric video game for the Game Boy. The game, although monochrome, is twice the size of Head Over Heels.

Make sure that the driver to your 3D graphic card is proper installed and working.
Check if your sourcelist is fully enable (universe, multiverse and mediabuntu).

Also Allegro is needed to make Head Over Heels working, to the terminal;

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude install liballegro4.2

Download Head Over Heels linux version to your Desktop;

Download

To the terminal;

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
tar jxfv hohlin-101.tar.bz2
cd hoh-install-1.01
sudo sh install.sh

Download the pingus.png to your Desktop.

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
sudo mv hoh.png /usr/local/share/games/HoH
sudo nano /usr/share/applications/HOH.desktop

Add the following;

Save (ctrl)+(o) and Save (ctrl)+(x)

You can now launch Head Over Heels by Applications —> Games —> Head Over Heels
or by typing hoh in the terminal.

Enjoy!

If you recieve install.sh: 51: Syntax error: Bad fd number when trying to install Head Over Heels, edit install.sh with a text editor and edit line 51 out. Save it and run the installer again. It might complain, but the game will be installed.