jimbo123
30-03-2009, 08:23 AM
Hi all, looks like a lot of people here have been able to help in finding the name of old games, so hopefully you can help with this game which I've had no luck in finding the name for, for years:
- It was an old DOS game that came on a shareware disk with a copy of the demo for Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis (disk was green);
- Game was a top-down RPG, similar to Ultima IV/V.
- Your character was a guy with some sort of red cape and a sword
- The game world was tiled, you could move in 8 directions, one square at a time;
- I remember the game world itself having "levels" (up to level 8, from memory), each "level" was a different style of environment and you could travel from one level to the other, I think possibly by stairs but I'm not sure.
- One of the levels was a tropical jungle type level, where you encounter a tribe of some sort of Amazon women. The plot ended with the leader of these women falling in love with you.
- One of the levels was a graveyard / crypt level, where the "prince" had gone mad and was attacking people on sight. The "Prince" was wearing glowing armour and had a glowing sword, which you could obtain if you killed him.
- Level 8 had a lot of waterfalls in the level, and had a big township with numerous people around.
- I think you could eat food.
- You did a bunch of quests for people. One quest involved being given directions to a treasure stash, it was "left of a stalagmite" or something. This quest involved you finding the stalagmite in the level, and finding a shovel, then digging around the stalagmite to find the treasure. Digging resulted in the holes being displayed on the screen.
- A lot of the quests involved you finding people. The people were represented as small stick figures on screen, and you could look at them for a description or name of them, and could also talk to them.
- One quest involved you finding a "boabab" tree somewhere and digging something up from it.
- The final quest was constructing some sword of great power, it involved finding parts for the sword and taking them to the blacksmith on level 8, he was the only guy who could make the sword.
- You interacted with the keyboard, Eg "a" for attack and a direction button; "t" for talk and a direction button towards who you wanted to talk with.
- After the game finished, there were advertisements for future instalments of the game (or possibly a sequel), which appeared to have snow environments in them.
After much searching, the closest game to it appears to be the Excelsior series, but it's definitely neither of those games. Thanks for your help!
- It was an old DOS game that came on a shareware disk with a copy of the demo for Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis (disk was green);
- Game was a top-down RPG, similar to Ultima IV/V.
- Your character was a guy with some sort of red cape and a sword
- The game world was tiled, you could move in 8 directions, one square at a time;
- I remember the game world itself having "levels" (up to level 8, from memory), each "level" was a different style of environment and you could travel from one level to the other, I think possibly by stairs but I'm not sure.
- One of the levels was a tropical jungle type level, where you encounter a tribe of some sort of Amazon women. The plot ended with the leader of these women falling in love with you.
- One of the levels was a graveyard / crypt level, where the "prince" had gone mad and was attacking people on sight. The "Prince" was wearing glowing armour and had a glowing sword, which you could obtain if you killed him.
- Level 8 had a lot of waterfalls in the level, and had a big township with numerous people around.
- I think you could eat food.
- You did a bunch of quests for people. One quest involved being given directions to a treasure stash, it was "left of a stalagmite" or something. This quest involved you finding the stalagmite in the level, and finding a shovel, then digging around the stalagmite to find the treasure. Digging resulted in the holes being displayed on the screen.
- A lot of the quests involved you finding people. The people were represented as small stick figures on screen, and you could look at them for a description or name of them, and could also talk to them.
- One quest involved you finding a "boabab" tree somewhere and digging something up from it.
- The final quest was constructing some sword of great power, it involved finding parts for the sword and taking them to the blacksmith on level 8, he was the only guy who could make the sword.
- You interacted with the keyboard, Eg "a" for attack and a direction button; "t" for talk and a direction button towards who you wanted to talk with.
- After the game finished, there were advertisements for future instalments of the game (or possibly a sequel), which appeared to have snow environments in them.
After much searching, the closest game to it appears to be the Excelsior series, but it's definitely neither of those games. Thanks for your help!