Frankie Goes to Hollywood is an adventure-shooter hybrid developed by Denton Designs and released in 1985 for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC, loosely inspired by the British pop group of the same name. The player controls an ordinary, unremarkable character living a routine existence in 1980s Liverpool whose horizons are abruptly broadened after witnessing a grisly murder. The central goal is to develop the character sufficiently to gain entry to the Pleasuredome. Gameplay revolves around exploring streets and buildings, collecting objects, and applying them correctly to progress — most items serve multiple purposes, and using them wrongly represents the primary way to fail. Woven throughout the adventure are several distinct minigames, including shoot-em-up sequences, a maze, and a jigsaw puzzle, giving the overall experience a varied, eclectic structure that distinguishes it from straightforward text-based adventures of the era.
