Fairlight (ZX Spectrum)

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Description

The land of Fairlight no longer lives up to its name, its culture and society having declined over centuries. The former ruler's castle Avars is shrouded in mystery, and Isvar chooses to investigate it. Unfortunately, he finds himself trapped in a mysterious castle from which he must escape.

Viewed isometrically, Isvar's adventure features complex object manipulation: each object has its own physical properties and resultant characteristics in terms of how much else can be carried alongside it. The castle is guarded and full of trolls, who can weaken Isvar's energy - food and wine can restore it.

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Alternate Titles

• "Fairlight: A Prelude" -- Title Screen title

Part of the Following Group

• Fairlight series

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Critic Reviews

Sinclair User	Dec, 1985		100
Popular Computing Weekly	Oct 03, 1985		100
Crash!	Nov, 1985	95 out of 100	95
Your Sinclair	Oct, 1986	9 out of 10	90
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Apr, 1986	8 out of 10	80
Your Computer	Dec, 1985		80
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Oct 16, 2007	7 out of 10	70
Computer Gamer	Mar, 1987	70 out of 100	70

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

Fairlight appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Copy protection

The initial release of the game didn't load on 128K systems, because the copy protection relied on writing to exact memory addresses, which weren't used in the same way on the bigger systems. Within a few months The Edge released an enhanced 128K version.

References to the game

It was from this game that the legendary cracker and demo group Fairlight took its name.

Remake

In a piece of astonishing greed and pettiness, The Edge scuppered the partially-completed PC remake of this game in 2003, so as not to damage sales of their mobile phone based remake.

Sweden

This was the first ever game made in Sweden to make a notable impact abroad.

ZX Spectrum 128K version

The ZX Spectrum 128K version introduced music and added some new secret locations.

Information also contributed by Игги Друге and Apogee IV