Confuzion

1985 video game

Not to be confused with Confusion.

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1985 video game

Confuzion

Developer(s)| Incentive Software
Publisher(s)| Incentive Software
Programmer(s)| Paul Shirley[1]
Composer(s)| Rob Hubbard
Platform(s)| ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron
Release| 1985
Genre(s)| Puzzle
Mode(s)| Single-player

Confuzion is a puzzle game developed and published by Incentive Software for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, and Acorn Electron. The object is to guide a spark along a fuse wire. It is similar to the 1982 arcade game Loco-Motion. Confuzion was written by Paul Shirley who later wrote Spindizzy.[1]

Zzap!64 magazine considered Confuzion to be the best arcade-puzzle game available at the time for the Commodore 64.[2]

## Audio track

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The cassette tape on which the game was supplied also contained an audio track also titled "Confusion", which was composed by the band Private Property (Matt Smith Lyrics, Joanne Holt/Steve Salt Music) and performed by Joanne Holt, Matt Smith, Steve Salt, Chris Weller and Gary Seaward. Rob Hubbard translated the original track into the game's soundtrack. Rob Hubbard's version of the music is mentioned in the book Bits and pieces: a history of chiptunes by Kenneth B. McAlpine.[3]

The band persuaded Incentive Software to change their audio cassette duplication process from monophonic to stereophonic, so that the music could be better appreciated (mono was fine for the computer program data which was distributed on cassette tapes in the 80s).

The graphic design for the cover of the cassette was created by Matthew Tidbury.

## References

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1. ^ a b Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
2. ^ "Zzap Test - Confuzion". Zzap!64. No. 4\. August 1985.
3. ^ Kenneth B. McAlpine (2018) "Bits and pieces: a history of chiptunes", Oxford University Press, Oxford. UK.

## External links

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* Confuzion at SpectrumComputing.co.uk
* Commodore 64 website includes a link to an MP3 file of the Confuzion theme song

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