Archon: The Light and the Dark

Title

Knight moves

Unicorn vs Dragon

Golem vs Basilisk

Title screen

Main menu

The board is set up.

And so the eternal battle begins.

The phoenix and banshee are fighting.

The banshee won.

So the banshee now controls that spot.

The dark sorceress casts a spell to imprison the phoenix.

The last light being left is the wizard.

The wizard is fighting the troll. This won't take long.

And it didn't. Now, only the wizard and sorceress are left.

LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE! Final battle.

Game over. They had no idea of the power of the dark side.

Title screen.

Move your pieces. (Boardgame sequence).

Challenge your opponent to a duel. (Action sequence).

Wizard tries magic! (Boardgame sequence).

Intro

Title Screen

Start of Game

Dark moves into position

Battle on a light-leaning square

Shifting back to dark

Battle on a Dark Square

Title flickers in different colors.

This screen is accompanied by C64 music.

The armies march onto the screen.

The board, completely set up and ready for play.

A phoenix attacked a goblin. Instead of just getting the square, as in chess, the two fight for it. The attacker is not guaranteed a victory.

The phoenix's attack it to blow up in a giant flame ball, which damages the opponent who is too close.

Another difference from chess is the ability of the wizard and sorceress to cast spells. Spells can heal, change time to take back a loss, resurrect a piece...

After the phoenix killed the goblin, the sorceress cast a spell to freeze the phoenix, so that it could not move.

Title screen

The board

Doing battle

The wizard summons a fire elemental, use it to attack one of the monsters of the dark side

Combat between light wizard and dark dragon on a light square. The light side gets a health bonus on these squares

Combat between light phoenix and dark manticore one a dark square. The dark side gets a health bonus on dark squares

Combat between light archer and dark square on a square of "neutral color"; neither side gets a health bonus on such a square

The wizard revives one of his creatures which had been killed in combat. You can cast the revive spell only once per game

Dark side controls all five powerpoints and thus wins the game

The NES port has a new gameplay rule that encourages combat. If no battle has been fought for quite a while the game ends in a stalemate

Archon Title Screen

The game board and pieces

The sorceress summons an elemental to attack a valkyrie

The wizard selects which creature he wants to bring back from the dead

Imprisoned units can not be used for a while. Black creatures are freed when night falls, light creatures when it is noon

Combat: white wizard dodges black dragon's fireball

Combat: white phoenix turns in to a ball of flames, but the black manticore is not within the range of this attack

The dark side controls all five powerpoints and thus wins the game

Title screen (CGA with composite monitor)

The players arrive on the board (CGA with composite monitor)

Moving a knight (CGA with composite monitor)

Battle! Lookout, white! (CGA with composite monitor)

Knight moves, there's going to be a battle... (CGA with composite monitor)

White Phoenix attacks black... (CGA with composite monitor)

The black goblin makes a move (CGA with composite monitor)

Control menu

Main menu

And so the eternal battle begins.

A battle

The archer takes it

The wizard is casting a spell

The dragon is fighting the wizard

But the wizard prevails