Sabre WulfRemastered
Commodore 64 · Genesis Project

Sabre Wulf Remastered

Ultimate's 1984 jungle maze, redrawn and reprogrammed for the Commodore 64.

Download How to play
  • C64 PAL
  • 1 player
  • Joystick in port 2
  • D64 disk image
Title screen: Sabre Wulf Remastered, press fire to start
The game

Lost in the jungle

  • 256 screens of jungle. One way out.
  • Find the four pieces of the amulet and show them to the guardian.
  • Stab the small stuff. Run from the big stuff.
  • Flowers give strange powers for a while. Some good, some not.
  • Linger on one screen and a bushfire comes for you.
  • The Sabre Wulf hunts the south. Your sabre won't touch it.

Story, controls and rules

The Sabre Wulf leaping at Sabreman, with the warning Beware of the Wulf
Beware of the Wulf.
Downloads

Get the game

Every release so far, newest first. Each is a D64 disk image: see Loading.

Also on itch.io.

Video

Watch it

Screenshots

From the disk

Captured in VICE from the release disk. Graphics by JonEgg.

  • Intro: the sun setting over the valley
    The intro opens over the valley
  • Intro: G*P presents, over the scrolling jungle
    The scrolling intro
  • Front-end menu: start game, instructions, high scores, settings, the team
    Front-end menu
  • Sabreman in the starting clearing, with an ape and a snake nearby
    Where it all starts
  • Sabreman in a clearing as a rhino crosses the corridor above him
    A rhino on the move
  • A hippo asleep in a jungle corridor
    A hippo, asleep for now
  • A screen on the river at the south of the jungle
    The river in the south
  • The map screen, showing the rooms visited so far
    The map fills in as you go
  • Loading page with a hint: some beasts cannot be killed at all, run from those
    A hint while the game loads
  • Instructions page: find the amulet pieces for the Guardian and he shall allow you to escape the jungle; joystick in port 2, M opens the map, P pauses the game
    Instructions
  • Game over, in gold lettering framed by jungle leaves
    Game over
  • Your adventure: screens explored, treasure found, amulet pieces, jungle escaped and how much of the game is completed
    How far you got, after game over or the escape
  • High score table
    High scores, saved to disk
  • Settings page: music on, sound on, exit
    Music and sound settings
  • The team page: graphics, programming, music and loader credits
    The team
  • Ultimate Play The Game logo shown while the game loads
    A tribute to Ultimate
Artwork

Jon's pictures

Jon Eggelton (JonEgg) re-imagined the Sabre Wulf loading screen in 2017. He drew the remaster's title screen too.

Sabre Wulf Re-imagined by JonEgg, 2017
Sabre Wulf Re-imagined JonEgg, 2017. View on C64GFX · CSDb
Sabre Wulf Remastered title screen: the Sabre Wulf logo in carved stone above glowing jungle
Sabre Wulf Remastered Title screen, by JonEgg.
Mockup

If it came in a box*

C64
DISKREMASTEREDGENESIS PROJECT
Sabre Wulf RemasteredGenesis Project
More

Explore the jungle

How to play

Story, controls, rules, scoring and tips.

The map

All 256 screens on one page.

Critters & items

Everything that bites, and everything worth picking up.

What's changed

What's new since 1984.

History

Every Sabre Wulf, from 1984 to now.

Coverage

FREEZE64, Retro Gamer and ZZAP!64.

Credits

The team, the tools and the original.

Making-of

Remastering Sabre Wulf, on C64Demo.

* The box and disk are a mockup. There is no boxed edition: Sabre Wulf Remastered will only be available as a digital download.