|
Simon The Sorcerer
''Simon the Sorcerer'' is a 1993 Adventure game#Point-and-click adventure games, point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Adventure Soft, for Amiga and MS-DOS. The game's story focuses on a boy named Simon who is transported into a Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universe of magic and monsters, where he embarks on a mission to become a wizard and rescue another from an evil sorcerer. The game's setting was inspired by the novels of the ''Discworld'' series, and incorporates parodies on fantasy novels and fairy tales, such as ''The Lord of the Rings'' and Jack and the Beanstalk. The lead character's design was inspired by that of the fictional British television character Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder, with the character voiced by Chris Barrie in the CD re-release. The game was well-received by critics, who praised the humour, graphics and gameplay, with some minor criticism towards the plot. ''Simon the Sorcerer'' went on to become a Simon the Sorcere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon The Sorcerer (series)
''Simon the Sorcerer'' is a series of point-and-click adventure games created by British developer Adventure Soft. The series follows the adventures of an unwilling hero of the same name and has a strong fantasy setting similar to Sierra's ''King's Quest'' and Westwood's '' The Legend of Kyrandia'' series. The game varies in style, however, as it is more poised to be a parody of the fantasy genre than a member of the genre itself, with many renowned folklore characters appearing differently from what they are generally presumed to be. The first two games are often compared with the ''Monkey Island'' series in terms of style and humour, and the Terry Pratchett ''Discworld'' novels and derivative games. Unlike many older adventure games, several of the titles in the series are still available for purchase. The first and second games in the series are also playable using ScummVM. Titles ''Simon the Sorcerer'' ''Simon the Sorcerer'' was released by Adventure Soft on 2 Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Soft
Adventure Soft, previously Horror Soft, was a British video game developer established by Mike Woodroffe, first as an importer and reseller of Adventure International games. The firm operates out of Sutton Coldfield, and is best known for the ''Simon the Sorcerer'' series of games. Adventure Soft Publishing Ltd. In the beginning Adventure Soft operated out of Birmingham, converting the Adventure International games by Scott Adams to run on microcomputers found in the United Kingdom market which were not currently supported. Adventure Soft employed Brian Howarth, the author of the '' Mysterious Adventures'' series. After a time the rate of release of games by Adventure International slowed and the company began to write other games using the same system. The first and perhaps most successful of these was ''Gremlins – The Adventure'' (1984) based on the film ''Gremlins''. 1985 saw the release of a game based on the television series ''Robin of Sherwood''. By 1986 Adventure I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imagine Publishing
Imagine Publishing was a UK-based magazine publisher, which published a number of video games, computing, creative and lifestyle magazines. It was founded on 14 May 2005 with private funds by Damian Butt, Steven Boyd and Mark Kendrick, all were former directors of Paragon Publishing, and launched with a core set of six gaming and creative computing titles in the first 6 months of trading. It was taken over by Future plc on 21 October 2016. In October 2005, it had acquired the only retro games magazine Retro Gamer, after its original publisher, Live Publishing went bankrupt. Early in 2006, it further acquired the rights to publish a considerable number of titles including gamesTM, Play, PowerStation, X360, Digital Photographer and iCreate, from the old Paragon Publishing stable of magazines when owner Highbury House Communications went into liquidation, following Future Publishing's withdrawal of its offer to buy the company, due to threats of a monopoly-investigation by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GamesTM
''GamesTM'' (styled as ''gamesTM'') was a United Kingdom, UK-based, multi-format video games magazine, covering video game console, console, handheld game, handheld, PC game, PC and Arcade games. The first issue was released in December 2002 and the magazine was still being published monthly in English and German up until the last edition was published on 1 November 2018. Format Besides covering all current and recent happenings in the video game world, the magazine included a Retrogaming, retro section at the rear, with reviews of past games and "battles" between older consoles. As a standard, it was around 112 pages long. News articles, Game development, developer interviews and the like were located at the front, with the preview section following. After the previews there was usually a large feature focused on a particular game or games company. This feature normally lasted 4 to 5 pages. The section for readers' letters followed, at the end of the magazine. Since it was a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humourist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his ''Discworld'' series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first novel, ''The Carpet People'', was published in 1971. The first ''Discworld'' novel, ''The Colour of Magic'', was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. The final ''Discworld'' novel, ''The Shepherd's Crown'', was published in August 2015, five months after his death. With more than 85 million books sold worldwide in 37 languages, Pratchett was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for ''The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents'', the first ''Discworld'' book marketed for children. He received the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LeChuck's Revenge
''Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge'' is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts in 1991. A sequel to 1990's ''The Secret of Monkey Island'', it is the second game in the ''Monkey Island'' series. It was the sixth LucasArts game to use the SCUMM engine, and the first game to use the iMUSE sound system. In it, pirate Guybrush Threepwood searches for the legendary treasure of Big Whoop and again faces off against the pirate LeChuck, who is now a zombie. The development team for ''Monkey Island 2'' was largely the same as for ''The Secret of Monkey Island''. The project was led by Ron Gilbert, who was again joined by Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman. The game was a critical success, but a commercial disappointment. ''Monkey Island 2'' was followed by ''The Curse of Monkey Island'' in 1997; the third game in the series had to deal with the predecessor's ambiguous ending and to vaguely explain it. In 2022, a sixth game ''Return to Monkey Island'' was released, whose plot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
