From 2018 to 2019 we shocked the retro community with an announcement that the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Famicom Disk System game of ' Knight Lore ' by Ultimate Play the Game, had been released on the C64 as a full Z80 conversion to the C64 by Rod and Emu with an awesome loading screen by STE. Well fast forward to today and Knight Lore is back in the news, with the recent port to the Commodore VIC-20 35k expanded by gekka. To coincide with this news, Saberman has provided some footage below.
In this classic game you play as Sabreman, who has been bitten by the Sabre Wulf and transforms into a werewolf at night. He has forty days to collect items throughout many rooms and must brew a cure for his curse. This is made ever more difficult in an isometric viewpoint as many deadly obstacles are in the way, that when touched will kill you outright. In the above gif for example, if you jump and touch those mines or spikes you'll die, if you push the tables underneath and stay too long, the mines will drop and yes you'll die again. This is pretty much what the entire game is like and some of the rooms are very difficult, requiring much thought or fast timing!
- Code: 6502 Assembly
- Requirements: VIC-20 PAL/NTSC +35K RAM expansion, keyboard and joystick supported.
- Description: A game inspired to the BBC classic Knight lore
It's much faster than the C64 version when there's loads of stuff happening on screen. This might actually be the best version to play out of them all!
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