Bugaboo (The Flea)

For other uses, see Bugaboo and Pulga (disambiguation).
Bugaboo (The Flea)
Developer(s)Paco & Paco
Publisher(s)Quicksilva
Designer(s)Paco Suarez
Paco Portalo
Platform(s)ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, MSX, Amstrad CPC
Release1983
Genre(s)Platform
Mode(s)Single player

Bugaboo (The Flea), later published in Spain as La Pulga, is a video game written by the Spanish programming duo Paco Portalo and Paco Suarez[1][2] for the ZX Spectrum and published by Quicksilva in 1983. It was later released for the Commodore 64 and MSX were produced. The Amstrad CPC port was published under the name Roland in the Caves[2] using the Roland character.

Bugaboo, besides being one of the earliest video games made in Spain,[3][4] is one of the first computer games to include cutscenes. Its publication marked the beginning of the Golden Era of Spanish Software. A sequel was released in Spain by Opera Soft under the title Poogaboo, made by Paco Suarez. Paco Portalo,[5] the other member of Paco & Paco, left the project after the publication of the original game for the ZX Spectrum.

The player takes control of a flea who has fallen into a cavern and must escape.

  1. ^ Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
  2. ^ a b "Bugaboo the Flea | Retro Gamer". 15 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Primer videojuego español". Conocer. La vida y el universo. Ediciones Tiempo S.A, nº 11, Abril 1984 p.24
  4. ^ "Top Ten juegos españoles de 8 bits - Artículo en MERISTATION". Archived from the original on 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
  5. ^ Francisco Portalo and Eduardo Mena, "Los videojuegos como paradigma de innovación en los orígenes de la industria del software español", Novática, ISSN 0211-2124, number 231, pp. 99-106, Enero-Marzo 2015 (Spanish)