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Description

Based on the later parts of the Dragonlance book Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the heroes descend into a ruined city in search of the disks of Mishakal.

The gameplay consists of horizontal fighting with a maze like map using doors to change the view. The party consists of the 8 Heroes of the Lance, using one at a time and the player can switch between them at any time. Each character has different types of attacks and spells making them more suited to fighting different enemies as well as acting as lives.

One of the AD&D games that takes a break from the usual RPG style.
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Screenshots

Heroes of the Lance DOS Answering for irrelevant questions = thing against piracy... (EGA)
Heroes of the Lance PC-98 Wow, play it in English? Great! Too bad there is no dialogue in the game anyway... :)
Heroes of the Lance SEGA Master System Failure
Heroes of the Lance Amiga Riverwind, jumps in to protect Goldmoon when her health gets low.
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Promo Images

Heroes of the Lance Magazine Advertisement
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Alternate Titles

  • "Heroes of the Lance: A Dragonlance Action Game" -- Tag-lined title
  • "Dragon Lance: Heroes of the Lance" -- NES title screen title
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Part of the Following Groups

User Reviews

Putrid game on all levels NES Multimedia Mike (20410)
Hand to hand combat with a dragon? Uh...it's your funeral DOS Indra was here (20905)
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Critic Reviews

Génération 4 Atari ST Dec, 1988 96 out of 100 96
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) DOS Mar, 1989 844 out of 1000 84
The Games Machine (UK) Atari ST Nov, 1988 78 out of 100 78
Commodore Format Commodore 64 Dec, 1991 72 out of 100 72
Sega Force (UK) SEGA Master System Jan, 1992 71 out of 100 71
64'er Commodore 64 Oct, 1989 6 out of 10 60
The Games Machine (UK) ZX Spectrum Mar, 1989 38 out of 100 38
Video Games SEGA Master System Feb, 1992 33 out of 100 33
Power Play Commodore 64 Aug, 1989 30 out of 100 30
Questicle.net NES Jan, 2011 F 0
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Forums

Topic # Posts Last Post
Any logical reason to keep the RPG genre here? 1 Alaka (68915)
Oct 28, 2012
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Trivia

Cover art

The game box's cover features a painting by artist Jeff Easley, also used as the front cover to Richard A. Knaak's 1988 Dragonlance novel The Legend of Huma.

Title screen

The title screen is an adaptation of a painting by Clyde Caldwell, earlier the cover to Tracy Hickman's 1984 RPG module Dragons of Despair.

Awards

Amstrad CPC Credits (13 people)

Game Design and Program creation:
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Game developed by:
U. S. Gold Ltd and Strategic Simulations Inc.