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Knight Orc (1987)

Level 9 Computing

Amiga · Amstrad CPC · Apple II · Atari 8-bit · Atari ST/STE · Commodore C64/128/MAX · DOS · MSX · Mac · ZX Spectrum

2.60 from 5 ratings

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Knight Orc is a standard text adventure game, with limited graphics on some platforms, by Level 9 released in 1987. It comes with a short novella by Peter McBride ("The Sign of the Orc") explaining the background to the story. After a night of heavy drinking with friends, Grindleguts the orc awakes to find himself strapped to a horse and … Read more
Knight Orc is a standard text adventure game, with limited graphics on some platforms, by Level 9 released in 1987. It comes with a short novella by Peter McBride ("The Sign of the Orc") explaining the background to the story. After a night of heavy drinking with friends, Grindleguts the orc awakes to find himself strapped to a horse and about to joust with a human knight. His "friends" are nowhere to be seen, and he must somehow escape from his predicament and get even with them. Grindleguts must survive in a world of hostile humans while seeking revenge against his tormentors. After the first chapter, the game switches to science fiction setting where Grindleguts is revelaled to be a malfunctioning non-player character in a futuristic MMORPG. Using his power of transitioning between fantasy and reality, he convinces several other bots to join him, and escapes from the simulated reality facility. Read less
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Details

Developers
Level 9 Computing
Publishers
Firebird, Rainbird
Genres
Adventure
Themes
Fantasy

Release dates

  • 1987 (North_America) Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS
  • 1987 (Europe) Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, MSX, Mac, ZX Spectrum
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Good graphics, great parser, love that you can say "go to forest lawn" etc and skip tedious "e n n e" etc, too bad there's lots of RNG-based stuff, be sure to save often..., and too long for my taste in text adventures. Oh! But the concept is great

After the first chapter, the game switches to a science fiction …

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Good graphics, great parser, love that you can say "go to forest lawn" etc and skip tedious "e n n e" etc, too bad there's lots of RNG-based stuff, be sure to save often..., and too long for my taste in text adventures. Oh! But the concept is great

After the first chapter, the game switches to a science fiction setting, where Grindleguts is revealed to be a malfunctioning non-player character in a futuristic massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Using his power of transitioning between fantasy and reality, he convinces several other bots to join him, and escapes from the simulated reality facility.

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