Stormbringer/Spellbound/Knight Time

[SALEHMARLEY]

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Reading one of the threads led me to start this one...anybody remember these games?
I loved these at the same time I found Dizzy.
If I remember right, very frustrating but most enjoyable!!!!
In fact, I don't believe I even completed one????

[Adz.M]

Moved to Other Games. :)

I've played the Magic Knight series, but I too never completed any of them. :say_no:

[Meph]

knight tyme was the other. (Knight Time)
I had it was was pretty hard, like all my games i couldn't do anything. lol
You could play space invaders while it loaded which was cool feature.


Ah this music takes me back... i've not heard this for 20 years!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEyalPjP0R4


I wanna play it now!!!

[SALEHMARLEY]

I would love to play em all again and see whether my school of knowlege I have gained as an adult would help me complete them now!!!!

The reason I stumbled across Yolkfolk.com was cos I was searching for Spellbound from the Magic Knight series on the net....what a result, whilst looking for something else, I found multiple Dizzy games to play at my fingertips:v2_dizzy_yahoo:

In addition to that, I have now completed (and learnt the basics of coding) over half of a computer game that I never would have dreampt about creating before.....I would class that as personal gain:-)

P.s - Adz, I am rubbish at choosing where to start threads eh?????

[Adz.M]

P.s - Adz, I am rubbish at choosing where to start threads eh?????

Sorry, It's a bad habit of mine. :embarassed:

[frogandhat]

I prefer the first Magic Knight game to be honest, Finders Keepers. It came out of nowhere on Mastertronic and hardly anybody I knew had even heard of it yet alone played it. I remember playing it for hours on end and mapping it all out and trying to work out the object combinations that would work. If I remember there were apparently 3 endings, but I only managed to discover 1. Still good fun though. A good mix of puzzle game, a couple of mazes, and a platformer.
The later games got the plaudits with the big cartoony graphics, but for me the first was the best.

[SALEHMARLEY]

I remember Finders Keepers....a little trip down memory lane for me. Just checked it out on YouTube and came across another game i used to play, 'Knight lore', how rubbish was that????
Aaaah, also seen 'Barbarian', 'Renegade', 'Target Renegade, 'Bruce Lee' and 'Knightmare', mispent youth eh????. Oh how I loved ?1.99 games...used to save all my pocket money to get the new release hoping for it to be as good as Dizzy and every time i was dissapointed cos lets be fair, the Amstrad was pretty rubbish!!!

Just remembered another aswell, 'Jack the Nipper', I don't even think you could complete that game???

Just had another thought...
Does anybody remember a game where you played a Monk? I remember you had to walk round a forest searching for herbs and if i remember correctly, you could warp via rings of mushrooms?

[Meph]

I used to buy me games from car boot sales... lol

I just look at 'Knight lore' (it wasn't what i thought it was) The game looks like Head over heels.

[frogandhat]

Meph - Knight Lore came first, and started the isometric craze (even though Ant Attack had used this format years before). I remember seeing a video of it at a ZX Microfair before it was released and everyone looking at it in awe at the size and quality of the graphics. Shame it played like a pig, I never could stand it, it was just far too slow for me, and then you kept changing into the werewolf to slow it down a bit more.

Salehmarley - sounds a bit like Feud, but I don't recall warping via mushrooms in it. There was another game called Druid which I think was similar, could it be that?
Jack the Nipper was completable on the Speccy, and most Amstrad games were basically Speccy ports, so I would be surprised if it was impossible, mind you, as I recall, it was very difficult (but good fun all the same!)

[SALEHMARLEY]

Well done Frog:v2_dizzy_clapping:....It was 'Feud'. Another game that I could do absolutely nothing on.
There seems as though there is a bit of a pattern here, I don't think I was very good at computer games in general. :v2_dizzy_frown:

[Meph]

Same here, i dunno why i even bothered loading them up.. lol

I used to play Madballs (for years I've been looking for this and finally after searching for something else i found it!!! i could never remember the name)

[Meph]

anyone else play Firelord?

[SALEHMARLEY]

Never heard of it??
I seem to have lost interest in computer games over the years sadly!!! I did however get well into the Zelda games and recently started playing the Twighlight Princess until I came across Grogg Island Dizzy!!!!

[frogandhat]

Yes Meph, I played it and used to love it. Always kept a look out for Hewson games as they always seemed to be good quality (Quazatron was my fave), and also this was written by Steve Crow, who wrote good games. Used to play most Speccy games, as the tape copying scene was quite rife. Thank goodness piracy is all sorted out now.