The Saga of Erik the Viking

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Description

In this text adventure, you play the role of Erik the Viking. Upon returning home, you find your farm abandoned; your family has been kidnapped. You gather the things you need for a journey, and go rescue them.

This game combines text adventure with graphics. The graphics illustrate the places you go, and are drawn on the screen as you watch. The display doesn't load a photo. Rather, a pen races around the screen, drawing the pictures in. While the picture is being drawn, the screen flickers.

Although the pictures slow the game down a bit, they are done in a style reminiscent of Viking-age farms. In one scene, you are placed in the center of a longhouse, and they show the depression in the floor, just as can be seen in books.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Inspiration: Literature
• Mythology: Norse / Germanic

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Critic Reviews

Crash!	ZX Spectrum	Mar, 1985	8 out of 10	80
Home Computing Weekly	Commodore 64	Dec 04, 1984		80
Sinclair User	ZX Spectrum	Jan, 1985	8 out of 10	80
Sinclair Programs	ZX Spectrum	Dec, 1984	75 out of 100	75
Your 64	Commodore 64	Feb, 1985		60

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Trivia

The Saga of Erik the Viking is based on the book written by Monty Python star Terry Jones.