Future Knight

Developer(s) Gremlin Graphics
Publisher(s) Gremlin Graphics
Platform(s) Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum
Release date(s) 1986
Genre(s) Platform
Mode(s) Single-player

Future Knight is a video game released by Gremlin Graphics in 1986 for several home computer systems. The game music was composed by Ben Daglish.

Plot

The space cruiser S.S. Rustbucket has crashed on Planet 2749 of the Zragg System, and its passengers been taken hostage by Spegbott the Terrible and his minions. Among them is the Princess Amelia, beloved of the Future Knight Randolph, who has now teleported into the wreck of the Rustbucket to defeat Spegbott and rescue her.

Gameplay

Future Knight is a 2D flip screen platform game. The player must guide Randolph through twenty levels of hostile robots and aliens before defeating Spegbott and rescuing Amelia.

Notes

An undocumented level editor is included in the Spectrum version which can be accessed from the main menu by pressing the key combination EDIT-F-K.

Reviews

The game was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon #158 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column, as part of the Mastertronic MEGA Pack of 10 games previously released in Europe. The reviewers gave the game 1 out of 5 stars, stating "You’re inside a spaceship trying to find a princess in distress; a really dumb game".[2]

References

  1. "Future Knight Review". Sinclair User. December 1986.
  2. Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (June 1990). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (158): 47–54.

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