Hocus Pocus – a side-scroller from Apogee with beautiful smooth graphics! You are Hocus traveling through different magical realms to prove your worthiness in magic to the head wizard Terexin. Of course to prove that worthiness, you must face lots of dangers and enemies,….even dragons!



Download Episode 1 (shareware episode) here.

Game Executable: HOCUS.EXE

Settings:
cpu cycles 600
render frameskip 5
mixer prebuffer 400
sdl mapperfile /usr/share/dosbox/mappercsa.txt

Controls:
Custom configure Left, Right, Up, Down, Jump and Fire in the Change Game Options menu.

Important!! – Before you start the game, run the separate program SETUP.EXE to set the soundcard you want for sound and/or music and to select the keyboard for input. I found the game runs much faster and smoother with music turned to OFF.

Important!! – Set game playing speed to Fast in the Change Game Options menu.

Positives: Very nice colorful graphics and fast smooth gameplay.
Negatives: The game loads a tad slow. Also the game is a bit repetitive on the gameplay.

DosBox Issues: Slow loading of the game. No deduction on my game rating since this doesn’t affect gameplay.
Overall game rating: 4.75 stars out of 5