Hoping someone can help me remember the name of this game...

By calliah

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23-09-2010, 23:24

Hey folks,

I am hoping that someone might be able to help me out in finding an old msx game for a friend of mine. The game she's looking for, as she remembers it, was about a guy, with a sword who is trying to defend a crown. While playing, you can pile up corpses to stop the enemies from getting to you. The only other things that she can remember is that the board was shaped like this <=> (i'm thinking hex squares). It looks "similar to Master of Monsters for the msx, but crappier" (her description Tongue). She also said that the background was black, and the red lines form the hexagon field.

The bad guys come from the top and work their way down to the bottom. They only came in single colors, and the player had two colors (as far as she remembers, at least.) The only bad guys she remembers are skeletons (and possibly mummies), and when they died, they take up a hex space. While fighting, you see a sort of flashing whirlwind animation.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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By JohnHassink

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24-09-2010, 02:46

Well there is an official Master of Monsters port to MSX:
http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/1324

Django has done a partial (?) English translation of it.

A resembling game is Shivan Dragon:
http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/1463
but I don't suppose it's that game (since it's extremely rare).

Other than the 'original' Master of Monsters, I wouldn't know...

By MäSäXi

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24-09-2010, 12:23

It´s nothing else than Electric Software´s Norseman. Smile (You are welcome!Wink)

http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/2949

By ro

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24-09-2010, 12:39

It´s nothing else than Electric Software´s Norseman. Smile (You are welcome!Wink)

http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/2949
cool

By ro

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24-09-2010, 12:40

Ah, do I spot a bug in the mrc messagedisplay function?! Sad

By ro

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24-09-2010, 12:41

jup!BA-team

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By calliah

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24-09-2010, 14:06

*salutes* Thanks much! I've no doubt that Norseman is the one she was talking about. *bows*