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Archon: The Light and the Dark

Moby ID: 73

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Amiga screenshots

thumbnail — Title

thumbnail — Knight moves

thumbnail — Unicorn vs Dragon

thumbnail — Golem vs Basilisk

Amstrad CPC screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Main menu

thumbnail — The board is set up.

thumbnail — And so the eternal battle begins.

thumbnail — The phoenix and banshee are fighting.

thumbnail — The banshee won.

thumbnail — So the banshee now controls that spot.

thumbnail — The dark sorceress casts a spell to imprison the phoenix.

thumbnail — The last light being left is the wizard.

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

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

thumbnail — LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE! Final battle.

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

Apple II screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen.

thumbnail — Move your pieces. (Boardgame sequence).

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

thumbnail — Wizard tries magic! (Boardgame sequence).

Atari 8-bit screenshots

thumbnail — Intro

thumbnail — Title Screen

thumbnail — Start of Game

thumbnail — Dark moves into position

thumbnail — Battle on a light-leaning square

thumbnail — Shifting back to dark

thumbnail — Battle on a Dark Square

Commodore 64 screenshots

thumbnail — Title flickers in different colors.

thumbnail — This screen is accompanied by C64 music.

thumbnail — The armies march onto the screen.

thumbnail — The board, completely set up and ready for play.

thumbnail — 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.

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

thumbnail — 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...

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

FM-7 screenshots

thumbnail — The well known title screen.

thumbnail — Let's imprison the biggest threat.

thumbnail — Oh no! It's combat time!

Macintosh screenshots

thumbnail — Boot screen

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Game start

thumbnail — Fight

thumbnail — Cast a spell

NES screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — The board

thumbnail — Doing battle

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

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

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

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

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

thumbnail — Dark side controls all five powerpoints and thus wins the game

thumbnail — 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

PC Booter screenshots

thumbnail — Archon Title Screen

thumbnail — The game board and pieces

thumbnail — The sorceress summons an elemental to attack a valkyrie

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

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

thumbnail — Combat: white wizard dodges black dragon's fireball

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

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

thumbnail — Title screen (CGA with composite monitor)

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

thumbnail — Moving a knight (CGA with composite monitor)

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

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

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

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

PC-88 screenshots

thumbnail — Title screen A

thumbnail — Title screen B

thumbnail — Getting started...

thumbnail — Look at the unicorn :)

thumbnail — I guess that can't be good, right?..

thumbnail — Damn those elementals...

thumbnail — Heated battle...

thumbnail — I'm trying to protect myself

thumbnail — No way, Jose...

ZX Spectrum screenshots

thumbnail — Control menu

thumbnail — Main menu

thumbnail — And so the eternal battle begins.

thumbnail — A battle

thumbnail — The archer takes it

thumbnail — The wizard is casting a spell

thumbnail — The dragon is fighting the wizard

thumbnail — But the wizard prevails

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