Loco (video game)

Loco is a video game developed by Antony Crowther and released by Alligata for the Commodore 64 in 1984.^[1] Loco is a clone of the 1982 Sega arcade game Super Locomotive. The game was later ported to the ZX Spectrum and Atari 8-bit computers. The ZX Spectrum port was developed by Richard Stevenson and Nigel Speight.^[2] The music for the game is a version of Jean-Michel Jarre's Equinoxe 5 and 6 by Ben Daglish.^[4][1]

Loco
Publisher(s)	Alligata
Designer(s)	Antony Crowther[1]
Programmer(s)	Commodore 64 Antony Crowther ZX Spectrum Richard Stevenson Nigel Speight[2]
Composer(s)	Ben Daglish
Platform(s)	Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit, ZX Spectrum
Release	1984: C64 1986: Atari 1987: Spectrum[3]

Crowther's subsequent Suicide Express is related to Loco, though not an official sequel.^[5]

Reception

In July 1984 Loco was awarded game of the month by Personal Computer Games magazine.^[6]