Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle

Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle is a 1982 video game published and developed by Coleco for the ColecoVision and Atari 2600. The game is based on the television series The Smurfs. In the game, the player must brave a series of obstacles to rescue Smurfette from Gargamel's castle. 
== Gameplay ==
The player controls a Smurf who must travel through the terrain of the Smurf forest in order to rescue Smurfette, who is held captive in Gargamel's castle. Along the way, Smurf must jump over fences, rivers, ledges, chairs, and tables that block his path, while avoiding birds, snakes, spiders, and bats. An energy meter at the top of the screen ticks away as Smurf tries to complete every region of the forest; a bonus of remaining energy in the meter is added to the player's score if Smurf completes the region, while Smurf dies if he fails to complete the region before the energy meter runs out. When Smurf rescues Smurfette, he is placed back at the start where the level gets longer and the animals get faster and harder to avoid.
== Notes ==
Besides this game, a Smurf "play and learn" educational game for the ColecoVision was advertised in their promotional literature, but was never worked on or released, as was also the case for the Intellivision version and the ColecoVision Super Game Module version of this game. A different type of educational game, The Smurfs Save The Day, was released for the Atari 2600 instead while Smurf Paint & Play Workshop was released for the ColecoVision.
The game did see some ports to the Commodore 64: Smurf Rescue by Courbois Software in 1984, which was followed in 1985 by Smurf 2: The Revenge, and Smurfen by C.A.W. and M. Brand, which was notable for using Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" as part of its background music.
== Trivia ==
The Atari 2600 version is notably the first Smurf videogame to actively use the Smurf song from the cartoon show.
The catchy tune played throughout the game is actually from two separate sources -- religious folk music (Shakers) and classical music. The folk music featured is Joseph Brackett Jr.'s 1848 song, Simple Gifts and the classical music is Ludwig Van Beethoven's 1808 Symphony Number 6, Pastoral.
== Remake ==
In 2003, Tantalus Interactive and Acclaim Entertainment (Altron and THQ for the GBA version and Humongous Entertainment for the PC and Mac versions) released a remake of the game for the Game Boy Advance, Macintosh, Apple Ambrosia, PlayStation, Xbox, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo GameCube. A PlayStation 2 version of the remake was planned, but it was cancelled and replaced by the PlayStation version.
Category:Games
Category:1982
Category:Adventure Games
Category:Games based on TV Series