Tomatoworm

This game is a version for the Commodore VIC20 + 24kB memory expansion or the Commodore 16 +16kB memory expansion of the original puzzle game Tomato Worm from Guerra Games for the Pico 8 fantasy console. 

You can play the original game online and support it here. You can learn more about the Pico8 here.

Like in the Pico 8, you can stop playing and then resume the game at any other moment because it remembers the last level completed. Instead of keeping the level number in the web browser cache, it's stored in the floppy disk or the disk image. (This may be trivial now but it was an unusual feature back in the day).

You can find more info about the Commodore 16 release and the computer, on plus4world forum.  You can read about the VIC20 release and the computer, on VIC20 Denial forum.

Instructions

To guide the worm towards the tomatoes use the cursor keys or the QAOP keys. 

If the worm blocks its way itself and there's tomatoes left, you can't complete the level. Then you have to reload the level and restart it, press x or X to do so. 

Press e or E to quit to BASIC, or directly turn off the computer to stop. As said, the last level completed will be kept on disk. Next time you resume the level you were playing. Not at the same point, though: it's restarted.

If for any reason you need to restart from the first level, press R.

The disk contains the VIC20 version, named WORMVIC, the C16 version, named WORM16, and the level data, one file per each level. To execute the VIC20 version type LOAD"WORMVIC",8, then type RUN. 

Requirements

The reason it needs a large memory expansion is because it is written in C (cc65) instead of the assembler which is usual in low spec 8 bit computers.

On top of the computer and the memory expansion you need a real disk drive or a disk drive emulator such as SD2IEC. Download the disk image and copy it to an SD Card or burn the disk image into a real floppy disk.