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22 images across all four C64 Boulder Dash titles. Filter by title to see specific screenshots.

Cave Screenshots and Box Art

Boulder Dash (1984) - original box art. C64 / Atari 8-bit version published by First Star Software.

Boulder Dash Construction Kit box art showing level editor interface — Boulder Dash Construction Kit (1986) - box art. First Star Software, C64/Atari versions.

Boulder Dash C64 cave gameplay - Rockford digging through dirt with boulders above and diamonds visible — Boulder Dash C64 - Cave A gameplay. Rockford (green character) digs toward diamonds while boulders are held in place by dirt above.

Boulder Dash C64 mid-level cave screenshot with complex diamond layout — Boulder Dash C64 - mid-game cave. Later caves require planning specific excavation routes to collect required diamonds without triggering boulder avalanches.

Boulder Dash C64 cave with diamond collecting in progress and timer visible — Boulder Dash C64 - diamond collecting screen. The display shows diamonds collected, remaining target, and time remaining.

Boulder Dash C64 later cave screenshot showing more complex boulder arrangements — Boulder Dash C64 - a later cave with denser boulder arrangements and more intricate dirt pathways.

Boulder Dash Atari gameplay screenshot showing the original platform version — Boulder Dash - Atari 8-bit version screenshot. Chris Gray's original platform; Peter Liepa's C64 version became the definitive release.

Boulder Dash II Rockford's Revenge C64 cave gameplay with new cave designs — Boulder Dash II: Rockford's Revenge C64 - new cave layouts. The 1985 sequel by Peter Liepa introduced new enemy types including slime.

Boulder Dash II C64 cave with slime enemy type visible — Boulder Dash II C64 - a cave featuring the slime enemy, one of the new mechanics introduced in the sequel.

Boulder Dash II C64 more complex cave design showing sequel's increased difficulty — Boulder Dash II C64 - a more complex cave. Liepa's sequel maintained the physics of the original while expanding the cave design vocabulary.

Boulder Dash III C64 cave gameplay screenshot, third entry in the series — Boulder Dash III C64 - cave gameplay. The third game was published by Epyx under license from First Star and developed by a separate team.

Boulder Dash III C64 cave screenshot showing game interface — Boulder Dash III C64 - the game interface retained the same status bar layout as its predecessors.

Boulder Dash III C64 mid-cave screenshot — Boulder Dash III C64 - mid-cave. New level designs extended the franchise's cave vocabulary.

Boulder Dash III C64 cave with boulders and diamonds in complex arrangement — Boulder Dash III C64 - a cave with dense boulder and diamond arrangements typical of the game's later stages.

Boulder Dash III C64 final cave screenshot from the Lemon64 collection — Boulder Dash III C64 - another cave screenshot. Five screenshots from the C64 version were preserved on Lemon64.

Boulder Dash Construction Kit C64 cave editor interface showing level building tools — Boulder Dash Construction Kit C64 - the cave editor interface. Players could place boulders, diamonds, dirt, enemies, and exits to build custom caves.

Boulder Dash Construction Kit C64 editor screenshot 3 showing design options — Boulder Dash Construction Kit C64 - the editor in use. Caves designed with the Kit were shared on bulletin boards, seeding a global fan community.

Boulder Dash Construction Kit C64 cave being built in editor — Boulder Dash Construction Kit C64 - building a new cave. The kit received mixed reviews but its long-term impact far exceeded any of the individual sequel titles.

Boulder Dash Construction Kit C64 additional editor view — Boulder Dash Construction Kit C64 - an additional editor view showing the grid-based cave building system.

Boulder Dash Construction Kit C64 final editor screenshot from Lemon64 — Boulder Dash Construction Kit C64 - a designed cave ready to play. The Kit foreshadowed modern game editors by nearly two decades.

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