''L'Aigle d'Or'' is a 1984 French action video game by

Loriciel Loriciel (also sometimes Loriciels) was a French video game developing company that was active from 1983 to the early 1990s. The name is a combination of ''logiciel'', the French word for software, and ''Oric'', the first computer they wrote so ...

Development

The game had an initial investment of approximately 100,000 FF and took three months of work.

Release

Games & Strategy suggested that in the Loriciels catalog, the game was "only (and wrongly)" cited as a role-playing game. Microphone anticipated the game's release on MO5 to be successful due to the recent success of its Oric release. The game peaked at 30,000 copies sold.

Critical reception

Tilt wrote the game is: "the precursor of a new range of adventure software, which will be more and more realistic, more and more “real”. An undeniable success." Micro 7 gave it a rating of 5 out of 5 stars.

Reviews

*'' Jeux & Stratégie'' HS #3

Legacy

The game has been described as reminiscent of the

Thomson MO5 The Thomson MO5 is a home computer introduced in France in June 1984 to compete against systems such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. It had a release price of 2390 FF. At the same time, Thomson also released the up-market Thomson TO7/70 ...

video game ''Thesaurus'' and the

Oric Oric may refer to: * Oric (computer), a series of home computers made in the UK in the 1980s * Oric Products International, the parent company that made the Oric computer * oriC, the origin of chromosomal replication in bacteria * ORIC, the Off ...

(acquired by Atmos) title Le secret du tombeau. Tilt noted that publishers were using "drastic measures to extract the quintessence of the

Thomson TO7/70 The Thomson TO7, also called ''Thomson 9000'' is a home computer introduced by Thomson SA in November 1982, with an original retail price of 3750 FF. By 1983 over 40000 units were produced. About 84 games were released for the TO7. The TO7 is b ...

", citing ''L'Aigle d'Or, Thesarus, and Mandragore'' in the adventure and role-playing genres. It had a sequel in 1992 called ''

L'Aigle d'or, le retour L'Aigle is a commune in the Orne department in Normandy in northwestern France. Before 1961, the commune was known as ''Laigle''. According to Orderic Vitalis, the nest of an eagle (''aigle'' in French) was discovered during the construction ...

''.

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