While this less realized version of La PulgaВ may seem primitive at a glance, its variety of levels and high jumping flea (depicted by a single asterisk here) is evocative of modern puzzle game hits like N+. He sent this game along with an astrology suite written in BASIC to Indescomp. Paco SuГЎrez originally designed La Pulgafor SinclairвЂ™s ZX81 computer as a way to depict and observe parabolic trajectories (a result of his interest in astronomy). While it exceeded all expectations with its immediate popularity, the game actually had very humble origins. Soon after it was distributed in Spain itself by a fledgling InvestrГіnica and was very popular in both countries. Bugaboo (The Flea), despite its very simple premise and singular enemy, is both unique and addictive thanks to the way in which the titular character navigates the game world.ДЇirst released in Spain in 1983 as La Pulga, the game was created by Paco SuГЎrez and Paco Portalo while working for Jose Luis DominguezвЂ™ Indescomp and originally published in the UK by Quicksilva.

Many of the genre structures and core concepts of how video games work that are taken for granted today took shape during this formative time. While video game sales suffered a major crash in North America in 1983 that the industry took three years to recover from, in Europe and Japan it was instead rapidly growing thanks to the quick spread of consumer level personal computers. But despite early 80s Spain housing many of the worldвЂ™s most prolific developers of 8-bit computer games, this part of video game history remains largely unspoken of outside of Western Europe. Francisco Portalo Calero, better known to gamers as Paco Portalo, and others have written extensivelyВ about both Bugaboo (The Flea)В and the new epoch of Spanish game development which followed its release.

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