 Cauldron II : The Pumpkin Strikes Back is a computer game developed and published by British developer Palace Software ( Palace ) as a sequel to their 1985 title Cauldron . The two @-@ dimensional ( 2D ) platform game was released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum , Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC home computers . Players control a bouncing pumpkin that is on a quest of vengeance against the " Witch Queen " . The roles of the two were reversed from the first game , in which the witch defeated a monster pumpkin . 
