ECS no. 1
ECS no. 2

Centurion: Defender Of Rome

General info

Not Amiga Original

Relationships

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2005-03-30

Stats

6,191

Genre

Conversions

Fujitsu FM Towns/FM Towns Marty
NEC PC-98
PC (DOS)
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Tandy PC/IBM PCjr

ECS / OCS

Version info

No
Max 1, Sim 1

Features

Hard Disk Installer

Yes

- HD installer is contained on disk 1. - More than 512K ram is required to launch the game from HD after loading WB. With only 512K ram, the game may be launched from HD by booting with no startup-sequence and executing the game from the CLI prompt.

Compilations

Releases

Year
Name
Licence
Type
Country
Publisher
Languages
Manual Languages
Disks
Rarity
?
Centurion: Defender Of Rome
Commercial
Budget
Europe
English
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare
1991
Centurion: Defender Of Rome
Commercial
Full Price
Worldwide
English
2
One version is common, at least one other version is rare

Notes

[1] Game jointly-developed by Kellyn Beck & Bits of Magic. Game designed by Kellyn Beck and Evan & Nicky Robinson. Amiga coding by Nicky Robinson. Graphics by Jim Sachs, Scott Wallin, Dennis Clevenger & Michael Kosaka. Original music composed by Michael Bard & Jon Newton; Amiga music coding by Rob Hubbard.

[2] Original release contents include a large A2 size game map (see HERE).

[3] Game must be launched from WB after booting: (a) the game disk or (b) loading WB from HD (df0:fonts must be copied to SYS:fonts and more than 512K ram is required).

[4] Game supports full multitasking (> 512K ram required), mouse/joystick control, savegames, and a quit back to WB option.

[5] Distributed in Italy by C.T.O.


Last known release: V1.00 (18-Mar-91)

Conversion Notes

Based on 1990 Kellyn Beck & Bits of Magic/Electronic Arts PC/Tandy/PCjr release. PC versions: EGA, MCGA/VGA, Tandy/PCjr

Screen info

ECS / OCS
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Screenshot ECS no. 6

Screenshot ECS no. 7

Screenshot ECS no. 8

Screenshot ECS no. 9

Screenshot ECS no. 10

Box: ECS / OCS
Box scan ECS no. 1

European Release (front)

Box scan ECS no. 2

European Release (back)

Box scan ECS no. 3

European Release (front) [alt]

Box scan ECS no. 4

European Release (back) [alt]

Box scan ECS no. 5

U.S. Release (front)

Box scan ECS no. 6

U.S. Release (back)

Disk: ECS / OCS
Disk scan ECS no. 1

European Release

Disk scan ECS no. 2

Disk scan ECS no. 3

Disk scan ECS no. 4

U.S. Release [Source: Moby Games]

Misc: ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

Game Map [needed for look-up protection]

ECS no. 2

UK Advert (Amiga Format, Issue 21, 4/1991, Page 6)

ECS no. 3

German Advert (ASM 4/1991, Page 47)

ECS no. 4

Italian Advert

Manual info

ECS / OCS
ECS no. 1

Manual (English)

ECS no. 2

Command Summary Card (English)

ECS no. 3

Manual (French)

ECS no. 4

Command Summary Card (French)

ECS no. 5

Manual (German) [Source: Retro Commodore]

ECS no. 6

Command Summary Card (German) [Source: Retro Commodore]

ECS / OCS

No cheats found.

Fujitsu FM Towns/FM Towns Marty
Conversion Fujitsu FM Towns/FM Towns Marty

Conversion Fujitsu FM Towns/FM Towns Marty

NEC PC-98
No conversion screens found.
PC (DOS)
Conversion PC (DOS)

EGA

Conversion PC (DOS)

Conversion PC (DOS)

VGA

Conversion PC (DOS)

Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Conversion Sega Mega Drive/Genesis

Conversion Sega Mega Drive/Genesis

Tandy PC/IBM PCjr
No conversion screens found.

Map info

ECS / OCS

No maps found.

MAGAZINE REVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
Amiga Action
21 (Jun 1991)
87%
2
Amiga Computing
39 (Aug 1991)
80%
Dave Luckhurst
1
Amiga Format
24 (Jul 1991)
79%
Trenton Webb
1
Amiga Joker
Jun - Jul 1991
58%
Joachim Nettelbeck
1
Amiga Joker
Mar 1993
Joachim Nettelbeck
Re-release
1
Amiga Power
2 (Jun 1991)
57%
Andy Ide
2
Amiga World
Vol 7 No 10 (Oct 1991)
Louis R Wallace
2
Australian Commodore and Amiga Review
Vol 8 No 7 (Jul 1991)
75%
Phil Campbell
0
CU Amiga
Apr 1991
85%
Matt Regan
2
Datormagazin
No 12 (Jul 1991)
88%
Lennart Nilsson
0
Génération 4
33 (May 1991)
90%
Didier Latil
0
Zero
20 (Jun 1991)
83%
Paul Lakin
1

MAGAZINE PREVIEWS

Magazine
Issue
Rating
Reviewer
Release type
Review
Scans
No magazine previews found

ECS / OCS

Lore Score: 77%

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