Knight Lore is an arcade developed by Ashby Computers and Graphics Ltd., released 1 December 1984 on Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System, MSX and ZX Spectrum.
What Knight Lore is
Knight Lore is an arcade game developed by Ashby Computers and Graphics Ltd. and released in 1984. It was published by Mastertronic. It is available on Amstrad CPC, BBC Microcomputer System, MSX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Knight Lore is a 1984 action-adventure game developed and published by Ultimate Play the Game, and written by company founders Chris and Tim Stamper. The game is known for its use of isometric graphics, which it further popularized in video games. In Knight Lore, the player character Sabreman has forty days to collect objects throughout a castle and brew a cure to his werewolf curse. Each castle room is depicted in monochrome on its own screen and consists of blocks to climb, obstacles to avoid, and puzzles to solve.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Knight Lore holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1984 averaged 73, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Knight Lore launched on 1 December 1984, within three weeks of 1942, Vs. Excitebike and Skool Daze. It reviewed better than 1 of the 3.
Released around the same time: 1942, Vs. Excitebike, Skool Daze.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Knight Lore yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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