Gobliiins (DOS)

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Description

Gobliiins is a puzzle game with adventure elements, in which the player controls a team of three goblins: Oups, Ignatius and Asgard (Hooter, Dwayne, and BoBo in the US release) to find four magic components. A voodoo doll has turned their king Angoulafre mad and by collecting the components they can track down Niak the Wizard, the only one who can make things right. The player needs to solve various puzzles by combining the different skills of the three goblins. It's possible to switch between them and control them separately. Most of the puzzles are based on coordinated actions. One of the goblins can cast powerful but erratic spells, another can collect and use objects, and the last can hit things. Action icons are activated at the bottom of the screen. The game takes place in 22 stages, each of which has puzzles that must be solved in order to advance. The characters have limited energy, which can be sapped by traps.

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Alternate Titles

• "頑皮小精靈" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
• "Gobliny" -- Russian title
• "Goblins" -- Informal title
• "Gobliiins 1" -- Rre-release title

Part of the Following Groups

• Fantasy Creatures: Goblins
• Gobliiins series

User Reviews

The French know how to create great games, especially involving Goblins.	Katakis | カタキス (43211)
A landmark in computer gaming.	Tomer Gabel (4634)

Critic Reviews

Play Time	Feb, 1992	87 out of 100	87
Retro Archives	Aug 21, 2020	16.5 out of 20	82
Retrogaming.it	Mar 12, 2008	8 out of 10	80
Retro Archives	Aug 21, 2020	16 out of 20	80
PC Games (Germany)	Sep, 1993	80 out of 100	80
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Sep, 1993	4 out of 5	80
PC-Spiele '93	1992	7 out of 10	70
Power Play	Mar, 1992	70 out of 100	70
Tilt	Jan, 1992	13 out of 20	65
PC Joker	Feb, 1992	62 out of 100	62

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Censored in later versions.	2	Rwolf (21340) Jan 24, 2017
Screenshot captions lacking...everything?	4	Shoddyan (14507) Jun 06, 2007

Trivia

False Windows release

A SoftKey release of Gobliiins on CD-ROM marks it as a product for Windows (the spine and back of the jewel case read "Gobliiins For Windows"), but the contents of the disc are pure MS-DOS.

Awards

• ST Format
  • January 1993 (issue #42) - #33 in '50 finest Atari ST games of all time' list

Music Credit Error

: While the European boxes said "Music and SFX : Moby (Frédéric Motte)", actually there is no music in the floppy (1991/1992) releases of Gobliiins (except in the Macintosh version). Moby wrote music for the game during the developement , but it was not used in the release version, despite the boxes and manuals credited him for 'Music and Sound Effects'. Some musics written for and not used in Gobliiins were eventually used in Once Upon a Time: Baba Yaga. Moby created the games SFX and the gobliiins unarticulated 'language', but there is no music in the game in almost all of the floppy releases.

Charles Callet wrote music for the PC CD-ROM (1993) release of the game which includes dubbing and music.

Related Web Sites

• Gobliins CD Patch Download (Sound Fix available from The Patches Scrolls)
• Hints for solving Gobliins (If you're stuck while playing this game, these hints will nudge you along and help you solve it.)
• ScummVM (Get "Gobliiins", as well as many other adventure games, to run on modern systems by using ScummVM, a legal and free program.)
• Walkthrough (Henning Koch's step by step solution)