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MAGIC KNIGHT
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This is the first of a batch
of Mastertronic budget games featuring Magic Knight. He features
in four episodes from the M.A.D. (Mastertronic Added Dimension)
Label including Finders Keepers, Spellbound, Stormbringer
and Knight Tyme. The games featured relatively unseen nagivation
menu system which was smooth and responsive and added immensley
to the character of the games, making it easy to work with
items and other characters such as talking to and using, dropping
and reading suff.
All this from a budget seller - the games retailed from £1.99
& £2.99
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 Finders
Keepers
The King of Isbisima is upset because he has nothing to give
his daughter for her birthday.
As a magic knight you have been ordered to find the Princess
Germintrude a very special present.
Should you succeed you may be invited to become a Knight of
the Polygon Table.
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Appearances:
Finders Keepers
Spellbound
Knight Tyme
Stormbringer
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 Spellbound
Magic Knight's mentor and teacher, Gimbal the Wizard, has
managed to bind you and seven other characters within a summon
spell. The spell was intended to be an aid to Gimbal's quest
for better tasting rice pudding. Due to a slight typographical
error that arose when the incantations were translated from
ancient English to slightly less ancient English, things went
a little bit wrong. Now our hero is trapped within a strange
and unfamiliar land with a bunch of people from different
slices of history!
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The WINDOWMATION
system.
Magic Knight stands to the right of the screen
while the menu windows overlay each other as a sequence of
commands is input. A first for the speccy.
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Knight Tyme
Having released the wizard Gimbal from a nasty predicament at
the end of Spellbound, Magic Knight is free to go back to 13th
Century England and return home.
He must find all the pieces of a time machine so he can assemble
it and travel to his own time. The Paradox Police are waiting
thirty days into MK's future, so there's a time limit in the
game
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 Stormbringer
Another window-mation menu driven adventure ensues with Stormbringer,
published by Mastertronic in 1987, written by David Jones.
A cleverly constructed method of gameplay which was unique
at the time and helped propell Magic Knight up to one of the
classic speccy chanracters and games of its time.
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