Original Game Research

"Fred" was a game released in 1984 and published by Investronica S.A which was a company located in Spain. Fred was rereleased by QuickSilva Ltd for the United Kingdom.

It ran on the ZX Spectrum 48k, in the early stages of gaming still so it was only 1 player.
Fred had a very simplistic play style, based on a 2D plane as the character could only move left and right, moving up and down by travelling on a series of ropes.
The Main character (Fred) was a cartoon-like, over weight looking character who wore a Fedora styled hat and sported a pistol in which he never uses. He looked very heavily influenced by Indiana Jones, who's first film was released 2 year before Fred.

Fred travels through a maze of cyan coloured blocks of stone or rock, looking like a tomb or cave, Judging by the loading screen of the game, the locale seems to be based in Egypt.
Fred also encounters Hedgehogs as his main basic obstacles that traverse the game world on the horizontal areas, unable to move up or down. The main threat and enemy to Fred are the spirits and ghosts that roam around the tombs, able to phase and drift through walls to trap Fred, damaging and reducing Fred's health if coming into contact, just like the Hedgehogs.

Being a game from the early years of gaming, there is little to no story present, Meaning there is a lot of freedom for development and changes.