''Time Paradox'' is a point-and-click adventure game developed and released by

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for the

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in 1996 only in Europe.

Plot

A futuristic agent named Kay is sent on a mission to stop the evil Morgana Le Fay. She first travels back in time to "the time of dinosaurs and cavemen" (sic), and then jumps to the medieval era in order to find and rescue the wizard

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from Morgana's castle and eventually defeat the sorceress.

Development

''Time Paradox'' has been in development for several years, having been in first publicly shown in 1993. The game was originally supposed to be released as ''Genesis'' already in the first half of 1994 and to be a FMV based, featuring digitized graphics. Besides the PC version, the developers also planned to create the

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versions.

Reception

The game was poorly received by gaming press upon its release, including receiving one star out of five in Germany's ''PC Player''. It also got low review scores in Polish magazines ''Gambler'' (48%) and ''Secret Service'' (2/10). Retrospectively, Adventure-Archiv rated it a 57% in 2002.

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