The game opens with an animation of a muscle-bound barbarian cutting a chain with a sword. On the Amiga and Atari ST versions, the animation is accompanied by a loud, digital sound effect.
In the game, the player is Hegor, a barbarian who must traverse several dungeons and underground habitats to defeat his brother, the evil sorcerer Necron. He has a sword, a shield and bow in his arsenal of weapons. Running and jumping, as with many platform games, comprises a large part of the gameplay of this title.
The game used a unique control system to make up for lack of more than one joystick button on many systems. The player would first press the one button after which a "menu" of actions would appear along the bottom of the screen. The player then selected the desired action by cycling through the choices with the joystick and then pressing the button again when the desired action was highlighted.
In the original versions, this game tried to emulate the visual style of the game cover and opening animation. The game used very detailed and colorful sprites and a variety of thoughtful sound effects to accompany the onscreen action. The IBM PC version plays digitized speech in the opening sequence and other sound effects using the speaker.
Receptionedit
David Plotkin of STart praised Barbarian's graphics and sound as "the most impressive I've ever seen in an ST game". He hesitated to recommend the game, however, because the lack of savegame forced restarts after the frequent unavoidable deaths.[1] The game was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon #150 by Courtney Harrington in "The Role of Computers" column. Harrington gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.[2] A review in Amstrad Action issue 40 gave the game 81%, stating it was "fun, but lacking in the long term".[3]
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Not to be confused with Barbarian The Ultimate Warrior or Barbarian 2002 video game This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Barbarian 1987 video game news newspapers books scholar JSTOR June 2008 Learn how and when to remove this message Barbarian is a 1987 platform game by Psygnosis It was first developed for the Atari ST and was ported to the Amiga Commodore 64 MS DOS MSX Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum The Amiga port was released in 1987 the others were released in 1988 The cover artwork part of Red Dragon figure landscape is by fantasy artist Roger Dean BarbarianArtwork by Roger Dean Developer s PsygnosisPublisher s PsygnosisSeriesBarbarianPlatform s Atari ST Amiga Amstrad CPC Commodore 64 MS DOS MSX ZX SpectrumRelease1987 Atari ST Amiga1988 Amstrad C64 MS DOS SpectrumGenre s PlatformMode s Single player The game spawned a 1991 sequel Barbarian II Contents 1 Gameplay 2 Reception 3 Reviews 4 References 5 External linksGameplay edit nbsp Opening animation from the Amiga version The game opens with an animation of a muscle bound barbarian cutting a chain with a sword On the Amiga and Atari ST versions the animation is accompanied by a loud digital sound effect In the game the player is Hegor a barbarian who must traverse several dungeons and underground habitats to defeat his brother the evil sorcerer Necron He has a sword a shield and bow in his arsenal of weapons Running and jumping as with many platform games comprises a large part of the gameplay of this title The game used a unique control system to make up for lack of more than one joystick button on many systems The player would first press the one button after which a menu of actions would appear along the bottom of the screen The player then selected the desired action by cycling through the choices with the joystick and then pressing the button again when the desired action was highlighted In the original versions this game tried to emulate the visual style of the game cover and opening animation The game used very detailed and colorful sprites and a variety of thoughtful sound effects to accompany the onscreen action The IBM PC version plays digitized speech in the opening sequence and other sound effects using the speaker Reception editDavid Plotkin of STart praised Barbarian s graphics and sound as the most impressive I ve ever seen in an ST game He hesitated to recommend the game however because the lack of savegame forced restarts after the frequent unavoidable deaths 1 The game was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon 150 by Courtney Harrington in The Role of Computers column Harrington gave the game 4 out of 5 stars 2 A review in Amstrad Action issue 40 gave the game 81 stating it was fun but lacking in the long term 3 Reviews editComputer and Video Games Sep 1987 4 ASM Aktueller Software Markt Jul 1987 5 The Games Machine Dec 1987 6 Crash Sep 1988 7 Zzap Dec 1987 8 The Games Machine Sep 1988 9 ASM Aktueller Software Markt Sep 1987 10 Computer and Video Games Oct 1987 11 ATARImagazin Jun 1987 12 Amiga Joker Mar 1991 13 ACE Advanced Computer Entertainment Oct 1987 14 Info Nov 1988 15 Computer and Video Games Sep 1989 16 Your Sinclair Nov 1988 16 Happy Computer Jul 1987 17 Commodore User Aug 1987 18 The Games Machine Oct 1988 19 ACE Advanced Computer Entertainment Oct 1988 19 Power Play Oct 1988 19 Zzap Nov 1988 20 Commodore User Oct 1988 21 References edit Plotkin David Winter 1987 For The Fun Of It Plutos Airball Barbarian and Sub Battle Simulator STart Lesser Hartley Lesser Patricia Lesser Kirk October 1989 The Role of Computers Dragon 150 68 73 95 Amstrad Action Issue 040 CVG Magazine Issue 071 September 1987 Aktueller Software Markt ASM Magazine 89 1987 The Games Machine Magazine Issue 02 Crash Magazine Issue 56 September 1988 ZZap 64 Magazine Issue 032 December 1987 The Games Machine Magazine Issue 10 Aktueller Software Markt ASM Magazine October 1987 October 1987 CVG Magazine Issue 072 October 1987 Barbarian stcarchiv de permanent dead link Barbarian review from Amiga Joker Apr 1991 Amiga Magazine Rack amr abime net Retrieved March 25 2024 ACE Magazine Issue 01 October 1987 Info Magazine Issue 23 November 1988 a b CVG Magazine Issue 083 September 1988 Kultboy com DIE Kult Seite uber die alten Spiele Magazine und Retro Games www kultboy com Retrieved March 25 2024 Amiga Reviews Barbarian 1 Psygnosis a b c The Games Machine Magazine Issue 11 Review of Barbarian www zzap64 co uk Retrieved March 25 2024 Commodore User Issue 61 1988 Oct External links editBarbarian at MobyGames Barbarian at SpectrumComputing co uk Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Barbarian 1987 video game amp oldid 1217753554, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
