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Monday, 2 December 2013

Semi-Random Pseudo-3D 2:1 Isometric 8-bit 80s Dungeon Crawl Post

Knight Lore 





Pentagram

 

 

HeroQuest


 


Fairlight







Nightshade




Now with videos and box art.

6 comments:

  1. Fairlight was one of my favourite games back then. Must dig out my emulator and give it a spin.

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  2. Fairlight's music sticks in my mind but I wasn't fond of the game; it was one of those lazy Spectrum ports that ran like a dead dog on the C64. I have much fonder memories of Nosferatu, which was the same sort of thing but not a dungeon crawler.

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  3. I've never played any of these games. :( We didn't have a computer until the late 90s.

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  4. Fatal Labyrinth was my first dungeon crawl experience, extremely unforgiving and different every time you played. Just as a crawl should be

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  5. Hey charles, grab yourself a ZX spectrum emulator and head on over to World of Spectrum for some downloads - although I think Knight Lore and Nightshade might be unavailable. I never played Fairlight BitD. None of the games are strictly a "dungeon crawl", except Heroquest. The modular architecture in Nightshade is amazing tho.

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  6. Spent many hours on knightlore with my Amstrad cpc6128 when i was a kid... 30 years ago. Great remembers, despite the 2 colours environment, the game was very fun and i loved the way you turned into a werewolf when the moon was full.

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