| Notes: | [1] Master Designer Software in association with Jack M. Zufelt and American Equity Resource presents a Cinemaware production, DEFENDER OF THE CROWN.
[2] Distributed by Mindscape in the USA and Australasia.
[3] The Mical Game System was used in the development of DOTC. It was written by Commodore Amiga software engineer and hardware designer, Robert J. Mical.
[4] Game must be launched from WB.
TRIVIA:
[1] According to the game manual, DOTC is a tribute to classic Hollywood adventure movies, most notably "Robin Hood", which brought to life tales of dashing heroes, damsels in distress and royal kingdoms. Indeed, 5 pages of the manual are devoted to discussion of the mythical legend of Robin Hood and the movies/TV series based on the character that were produced up until the 1986 release of DOTC.
[2] Jack M. Zufelt, who is acknowledged in the game intro, is an American network market industry consultant, book author and international speaker.
[3] The Amiga version of DOTC was written in 6 weeks. Given the loss of two coders and a strict deadline for the product to be released, a few features which appeared in subsequent releases on other platforms did not make it into the Amiga version (e.g. the Greek fire and disease attack options). In a 1988 interview, Cinemaware founder, Bob Jacob, judged that the most definitive version of DOTC released was for rival platform, the Atari ST [Source: Cinemaware feature article, Your Amiga, June 88, p16].
[4] At the time of release DOTC reportedly was the largest game ever released, containing a "massive" 1.5Mb of graphics alone [Source: Cinemaware development article, Commodore Magazine (USA), Oct 87, p73].
[5] DOTC won the Software Publishers Association's 1986 award for Best Graphics (16-Bit Division). |
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