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Barbarian
was released around 1987 and 1988 for most of the prominent 8-bit
and 16-bit platforms.
Barbarian is a one- or two-player fighting game. As the name suggests,
the fighters are barbarians. The game offers sword combat in various
locales. The game has also a one-player plot mode, where the player
has to defeat several fighters to fight evil wizard Drax to rescue
princess Marina.
The game was greatly inspired by sword and sorcery fantasy stories
like Conan the Barbarian. The original game received critical acclaim
as one of the best hand to hand fighting games for the platform,
while generating controversy for the level of violence (players
could decapitate one another) and depiction of women in skimpy bikinis.
Maria Whittaker and Michael Van Wijk are the models on the game
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Barbarian
on COMODORE AMIGA |
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Palace
Software was a British software publisher during the 1980s whose
address was The Old Forge, 7,Caledonian Road, London.
It was notable for the Barbarian and Cauldron series of games for
8-bit home computer platforms, in particular the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad
CPC and Commodore 64.
It caused some controversy with its adverts in computer magazines,
particularly for Barbarian II which featured page-3 girl Maria Whittaker
as a scantily clad female warrior.
In 1990, Palace Software's parent company declared bankruptcy, taking
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Barbarian |
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port is faithful to the original, and even if the graphics have
been updated to fit nowadays standards, all the variety, and the
fun "specials" of the original version have been kept.
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few glitches, in code, or in animations, that are left will be
removed soon. The full version will feature the original "history"
mode, as well as a "survivor" mode, that should be linked
to an high scores table.
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Redesigning
the orginal Barbarian
( and getting rid of the "brief of infamy"!) |
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