Knight Orc is an adventure developed by Level 9 Computing, released 31 December 1987 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II and Atari 8-bit.
What Knight Orc is
Knight Orc is an adventure game developed by Level 9 Computing and released in 1987. It was published by Firebird. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Mac, MSX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Knight Orc is a standard text adventure game, with limited graphics on some platforms, by Level 9 released in 1987. It comes with a short novella by Peter McBride ("The Sign of the Orc") explaining the background to the story. After a night of heavy drinking with friends, Grindleguts the orc awakes to find himself strapped to a horse and about to joust with a human knight. His "friends" are nowhere to be seen, and he must somehow escape from his predicament and get even with them. Grindleguts must survive in a world of hostile humans while seeking revenge against his tormentors. After the first chapter, the game switches to science fiction setting where Grindleguts is revelaled to be a…
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Knight Orc launched on 31 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels.
Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.
Quick answers
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When did Knight Orc come out?
Knight Orc was released on 31 December 1987 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Mac, MSX and ZX Spectrum.
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