Eric the Unready
Eric the Unready is a humorous text adventure with graphics, similar in concept to Legend's own Spellcasting series. Like in those games, the player can select combinations of verbs and objects from a list to…
Eric the Unready is an adventure developed by Legend Entertainment, released 31 December 1993 on DOS.
What Eric the Unready is
Eric the Unready is an adventure game developed by Legend Entertainment and released in 1993. It is available on DOS only. It runs on Legend.
The premise, in the publisher's words
An ancient prophecy states that King Fudd the Bewildered will die peacefully, his daughter accompanying him during his last hour. However, Princess Lorealle the Worthy mysteriously disappears, abducted by her stepmother Morgana, who intends to put her own daughter on the throne. In order to prevent the princess from being rescued by a valiant knight, Morgana makes sure that the Union Hall selects the most unworthy one for this valiant task: Eric the Unready, known for bringing the book "How to Joust" to his duels.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Eric the Unready launched on 31 December 1993, within three weeks of Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park and Windjammers.
Released around the same time: Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park, Windjammers.
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