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More about Conan: Hall of Volta (from Wikipedia):
Conan: Hall of Volta (or simply Conan on the box cover and title screen) is a platform game from American developers Eric Robinson and Eric Parker and published by Datasoft in 1984. It is based on the character Conan created by Robert E. Howard. This game was originally written for the Apple II and ported to the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers.
Released in 1984, the game's launch coincided with the debut of the film Conan the Destroyer. The box shows a painting of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the muscular warrior with his new costume for Destroyer. Despite this attempted tie-in, the game has little to do with the film besides the Cimmerian in the title role, having originally been designed as a boomerang-throwing game titled Visigoth. One of the screenshots on the back of the box is from a prototype version and shows a boomerang instead of a sword.
Gameplay
The player controls Conan as he attacks the evil Volta in his castle fortress. Conan is armed with 10 boomerang swords. From time to time, Conan may be aided by an "Avian Ally" as he tries to defeat Volta's sinister hordes, which includes bats, scorpions, giant ants, fire-breathing dragons and floating eyeballs.
The game includes seven diverse levels requiring the player to navigate lava pits, geysers, spike pits, and floating platforms. Along the way, the player often needs to collect magic gems or keys in order to progress.
In the game, Conan does not jump, he somersaults. If he falls, he launches into a dive.
One innovate and original feature of the game's time was a random close-up picture that would be shown upon the player's last death. For example, dying in the first level might show a close-up picture of a bat with the caption "Bats in your Belfry". Deaths in other levels would yield a picture of a hazard unique to that level. Each level has 4 possible random death messages that can be shown:
1a: Back to Cimmeria barbarian!!
1b: Bats in your belfry
1c: Your Struggles are in Vain
1d: Your odyssey has ended before it had begun
2a: A watery barrier
2b: Quest terminated
2c: There is no glory for you here
2d: You withdraw battered and torn
3a: Death at thy feet, life from above...
3b: You beat a heated retreat...
3c: Only a cleric can help you now
3d: You Succumb to Lassitude
4a: Thus, the story ended...
4b: Conan's Bane!
4c: The End
4d: You sink slowly into a peaceful bliss
5a: You shuffle off defeated for now
5b: To be continued...
5c: Adveture's End... [NOTE: Adventure is misspelt.]
5d: The glow from the pyre lights the room
6a: The eyes have it
6b: Thy fate is sealed
6c: A Shocking End
6d Crom awaits
7a: Volta's minions take you to the Loph-ka slave pits
7b: Volta is victorious
7c: You retire more dead than alive
7d: The Crimson Orb recedes on your horizon
Technical Information
Conan was one of the earliest games to use a software 1-bit Stencil buffer for masking foreground and background objects.
Release
In Bulgaria, where Conan the Barbarian was generally unknown, the Apple II version was translated into Bulgarian and distributed by ZMD Pazarjik under the name "Добрия рицар" (The Good Knight).
More about Conan: Hall of Volta (from conan.fandom.com):
Conan: Hall of Volta is a 1984 action/platform computer game, designed by Eric Robinson and Eric Parker, and published by Datasoft. It is based on the character Conan created by Robert E. Howard.
Released in 1984, this game's launch coincided with the debut of the sequel to the popular feature film, 1982's Conan the Barbarian. The game's box even featured a painting of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the muscle-bound warrior. Despite this attempted tie-in, the game has little to do with the movie series except for the fact that it features the Cimmerian in the title role. This is due to having originally been designed without the Conan tie-in, as a boomerang throwing game titled Visigoth. One of the screenshots on the back of the packaging is from a prototype version, and shows a boomerang instead of a sword.
This game was originally written for the Apple II and ported to the Commodore 64 and Atari 400/800.
Description
The player controls Conan as he attacks the evil Volta in his castle fortress. Conan is armed with 10 boomerang swords. From time to time, Conan may be aided by an "Avian Ally" as he attempts to defeat Volta's sinister hordes, which included bats, scorpions, giant ants, fire-breathing dragons and floating eyeballs.
The game includes seven diverse levels requiring the player to navigate lava pits, geysers, spike pits, and floating platforms. Along the way the player often needed to collect magic gems or keys in order to progress.
In the game, Conan doesn't simply jump, he somersaults. If he falls, he launches into a full-scale dive. These effects, along with the diverse levels, made this game popular.
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More about Conan: Hall of Volta (from Wikipedia):
Conan: Hall of Volta (or simply Conan on the box cover and title screen) is a platform game from American developers Eric Robinson and Eric Parker and published by Datasoft in 1984. It is based on the character Conan created by Robert E. Howard. This game was originally written for the Apple II and ported to the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers.
Released in 1984, the game's launch coincided with the debut of the film Conan the Destroyer. The box shows a painting of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the muscular warrior with his new costume for Destroyer. Despite this attempted tie-in, the game has little to do with the film besides the Cimmerian in the title role, having originally been designed as a boomerang-throwing game titled Visigoth. One of the screenshots on the back of the box is from a prototype version and shows a boomerang instead of a sword.
Gameplay
The player controls Conan as he attacks the evil Volta in his castle fortress. Conan is armed with 10 boomerang swords. From time to time, Conan may be aided by an "Avian Ally" as he tries to defeat Volta's sinister hordes, which includes bats, scorpions, giant ants, fire-breathing dragons and floating eyeballs.
The game includes seven diverse levels requiring the player to navigate lava pits, geysers, spike pits, and floating platforms. Along the way, the player often needs to collect magic gems or keys in order to progress.
In the game, Conan does not jump, he somersaults. If he falls, he launches into a dive.
One innovate and original feature of the game's time was a random close-up picture that would be shown upon the player's last death. For example, dying in the first level might show a close-up picture of a bat with the caption "Bats in your Belfry". Deaths in other levels would yield a picture of a hazard unique to that level. Each level has 4 possible random death messages that can be shown:
1a: Back to Cimmeria barbarian!!
1b: Bats in your belfry
1c: Your Struggles are in Vain
1d: Your odyssey has ended before it had begun
2a: A watery barrier
2b: Quest terminated
2c: There is no glory for you here
2d: You withdraw battered and torn
3a: Death at thy feet, life from above...
3b: You beat a heated retreat...
3c: Only a cleric can help you now
3d: You Succumb to Lassitude
4a: Thus, the story ended...
4b: Conan's Bane!
4c: The End
4d: You sink slowly into a peaceful bliss
5a: You shuffle off defeated for now
5b: To be continued...
5c: Adveture's End... [NOTE: Adventure is misspelt.]
5d: The glow from the pyre lights the room
6a: The eyes have it
6b: Thy fate is sealed
6c: A Shocking End
6d Crom awaits
7a: Volta's minions take you to the Loph-ka slave pits
7b: Volta is victorious
7c: You retire more dead than alive
7d: The Crimson Orb recedes on your horizon
Technical Information
Conan was one of the earliest games to use a software 1-bit Stencil buffer for masking foreground and background objects.
Release
In Bulgaria, where Conan the Barbarian was generally unknown, the Apple II version was translated into Bulgarian and distributed by ZMD Pazarjik under the name "Добрия рицар" (The Good Knight).
More about Conan: Hall of Volta (from conan.fandom.com):
Conan: Hall of Volta is a 1984 action/platform computer game, designed by Eric Robinson and Eric Parker, and published by Datasoft. It is based on the character Conan created by Robert E. Howard.
Released in 1984, this game's launch coincided with the debut of the sequel to the popular feature film, 1982's Conan the Barbarian. The game's box even featured a painting of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the muscle-bound warrior. Despite this attempted tie-in, the game has little to do with the movie series except for the fact that it features the Cimmerian in the title role. This is due to having originally been designed without the Conan tie-in, as a boomerang throwing game titled Visigoth. One of the screenshots on the back of the packaging is from a prototype version, and shows a boomerang instead of a sword.
This game was originally written for the Apple II and ported to the Commodore 64 and Atari 400/800.
Description
The player controls Conan as he attacks the evil Volta in his castle fortress. Conan is armed with 10 boomerang swords. From time to time, Conan may be aided by an "Avian Ally" as he attempts to defeat Volta's sinister hordes, which included bats, scorpions, giant ants, fire-breathing dragons and floating eyeballs.
The game includes seven diverse levels requiring the player to navigate lava pits, geysers, spike pits, and floating platforms. Along the way the player often needed to collect magic gems or keys in order to progress.
In the game, Conan doesn't simply jump, he somersaults. If he falls, he launches into a full-scale dive. These effects, along with the diverse levels, made this game popular.
