Knight Lore Walkthrough, ZX Spectrum
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- A walkthrough of the ZX Spectrum game, Knight Lore. From the recording originally sent to www.rzxarchive.... . Here's a walkthrough of a graphics modded version from 2002 by Mick Farrow: • Knight Lore (Graphics ... . And a 128K modded version can be found here: • Knight Lore (128K Mod)...
Recorded using "rollback", a feature of the emulator which allows you to mark a point, which you can then roll back to later if you get into difficulty, and try again. More info. on the channel "About" page: / rzxarchive
#ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming #KnightLore
Stunning. When I played this as a teenager, it was like seeing the future, it was so much better than anything else. Thankyou for the video. 👍
You're welcome!
Yep, it was miles ahead of anything else. Incredible that this was finished before Sabre Wulf. Though I wasn't a particularly skilled gamer so found the controls on Knight Lore a bit difficult.
I remember playing this. I was ten years old and adored this, along with: Jet Set Willy, Horace Goes Skiing, Bomb Jack, Saboteur, Ant Attack, Hyper Sports, Daley Thompson's Decathlon and numerous others that I can't remember or just can't be bothered to list!
Fun fact. Jet set willy was so bugged it was impossible to complete without code.
It was all about this, JSW 2, Dan Dare 3, Dynamite Dan 2 and Fued for me!
Can you explian more please? That game frustrated me as a young lad and maybe now you will tell me why@@blakearius
@@GibsonguyLondon its on the wiki :Upon release, the game could not be completed due to several bugs. Although four completely unrelated issues, they became known collectively as "The Attic Bug".[6] After entering The Attic screen, various rooms would undergo corruption for all subsequent playthroughs, including all monsters disappearing from The Chapel screen, and other screens triggering a game over. This was caused by an error in the path of an arrow in The Attic, resulting in the sprite traveling past the end of the Spectrum's video memory and overwriting crucial game data instead. Initially Software Projects attempted to pass this bug off as an intentional feature to make the game more difficult,[7] claiming that the rooms in question were filled with poison gas. However, they later rescinded this claim and issued a set of POKEs to correct the flaws
Thankyou my friend@@blakearius
First time I'm watching this in 35 years. Memories.
Same.
At it's time, Knight Lore was THE finest home computer game we'd ever seen.
I agree!
I agree!.
Yep a total classic!
It was!!! It was solely responsible for me not leaving my bedroom for 6 months until I learnt how to load the cheat header 😜
Well, actually it was released along with Underwurlde in November 1984 already! In one article the Stamper brothers revealed the secret to their being ahead of time - they started out as coin-op programmers in the late 70s and really had studied the principles of Z80 and 8bits dilligently. Once they plunged into the Spectrum world their advantage was so big they couldn't be taken over. Just the no. of copies sold for Sabre Wulf (released in summer '84) went as high as 300 thousand they soon became millionaires..
These old monochrome isometric games have so much charm. Never owned a speccy but I wish I had now.
For me the greatest game of all time! And it's gonna stay so forever..
I've just finished porting this to the TRS-80 Color Computer 3, and my ports for Amiga and Neo Geo (which optionally feature Amstrad CPC graphics) are complete but not yet fully debugged.
Your video has been an invaluable aid during the process - thanks!
Wow thats impressive. Thanks for your efforts!!
Was so addicted to this game that I completed it with 100% in 23 days back in the day.
Utterly seminal game.
Yeah. That's where Solstice came from
This was a top top ground breaking 3D game at the time and as a 14 year old I loved it!
Those transformations... I remember them. So cute! The game is really well done.
Thanks so much! I'm playing Rare Replay on Xbox One and this game is on the list. Your walkthrough helps alot.
Master Cylinder You're welcome, thanks for the comment!
spent weeks trying to complete this and loved every minute as a kid
Oh man, what a blast from the past. This was lightyears ahead of its time on the Spectrum, and directly led to another awesome game, Head Over Heels from 1986. ❤
There was always that moment when you were SURE that you could pass under one of the bubbles before the transformation sequence kicked in...
That was astoundingly futuristic when it came out ...
I loved this game so much. I made a large map on the floor and it was so wonderful to finish it.
This game is prestigiously unique. Love it!
This was the first spectrum game where you could move around and manipulate objects with no colour clash, a very big deal at the time. I saw this at a computer fair in Alexandra Palace in London-it looked like an out of this world game at the time.
Because to all intents and purposes it's a monochrome game.
Yeah, hard to have color clash, when there's only black and one other colour on the main screen. I mean the ruby diamond is green until he picks it up, and then appears red in the hud. Unless the HUD/main screen intersect, not much chance of colour clash happening.
brings me back to the first time I saw this running at a computer show at Alexandra Palace in London in 1984
I've got pretty good hand-eye, and awesome scores on Chuckie Egg and Dare Devil Dennis, but hats off to you there's no way I can see myself close to completing Knightlore.
Chuckie Egg.... Respect sir 👊
The biggest problem in many ZX games is that they do not tell you what are the controls.
Some have decency to let you redefine them, but many dont. This makes it nearly impossible to guess all the keys. for example I had no clue you can somehow pick up that diamond in the beginning... :(
The controls were in the instructions in the box. Unless like me you tended to pirate games :)
OMG I loved this when I was a kid
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when you consider the limitations of machines back in the day, it is amazing that they could produce something like this. The Last Ninja on the C64 was probably the equivalent in terms of its achievement.
if you imagine 1984... i'd sit for days playing these games again for sure.
Incredible programming.
Greatest computer game ever. 🐺
Great times. Never seen all rooms at those days.
Thanks for sharing this.
Loved this when i was a kid, watching this back now its amazing hkw atmospheric theh managed to make this game. The rooms have a great feeling about them. Good memories thanks
Such great memories of this game on Spectrum 48K. Advanced copy protection in the load screen, and beautiful isometric rendering.
after all that hard work the ending looked so underwhelming! well done for showing off almost all the rooms, made the ones i struggled with time and time again look so easy :-)
48K of memory don't forget
I have been trying to remember this game for years. Thanks.
You're welcome :)
This brings back so many, many memories of my childhood, thanks for sharing!
Loved this game. A Speccy classic.
I could not figure out how to solve that puzzle at 17:30! Thanks so much!
Frederick Barnard You're welcome :)
Loved this game as a kid and it was one of 2 games my mum liked she made a paper map of the dungeon listing where an item is and drawing of the room it was enormous nifty trick in the wizards room for putting the spell back i never worked out that myself
if you drop an object in the Wizard's room it puts the spell back in the cauldron!
Thanks you for bring us that fantastic game from 80's... Ahhh...Blessed memories :)
Wow! Played a bit with the ZX, but never ever seen this game! Truly amazing! Z80/48K and not much more! Just wow!
The sound/fx could have been better programmed/executed I think...
You have to remember that a lot of these sounds were designed for the 48k internal speaker. I just watched a video of the BBC version and I much prefer the speccys 'squelchy' sound effects.
If I had grown up in the UK with a Spectrum and this game, one constant would have remained same: I'd still be awful at 2D isometric platform games. I have bad depth perception, heh. It's cool to see in action now though, I know this game was a big deal for Ultimate/Rare. I've been watching a lot of videos about the computer gaming scene in the UK in the 80s and I find it intriguing how differently everything played out as opposed to here in the US. The Speccy's an interesting little machine.
memories - my 1st experiences with lag xD
Presently listening to this with headphones on, and the sound is out of control. Highly recommend
Damn you needed patience and a deft touch for this game - especially in the 'minefield' room. 3:45
Thank you for this! now i'm ready for Rare Replay!!!
Falahi Baboo You're welcome. I wondered why some of my Ultimate videos where getting a lot of views recently. Now I know!
From the people who eventually brought up you Banjo and Donkey Kong Country
Fantastic innovation for the day.
Great game in its day.
Nice game a good playability for the year of release.
knight lore does date back far now, .. but it was a classic game.
2:02 That block thats low in the corner, for some reason I thought it was higher in the middle, I've been jumping, double jumping the wrong way the whole time.
Now I see where Ritman's influence for Batman comes from!
Edward Purves+ And Head over Heels :)
gotta love that day/night cycle.
Anyone still loving this game in 2022.
Замечательно!
Помню эта игра казалась мне совершенно непроходимой. И о чудо, я всё же прошёл её!!!
loved this game played it to death back in the day!
WTF! A see it again after 24 years! Hail werewolf!
1984? Less than a decade later we had Doom.
Big inspiration for Solstice (1990, NES)
Transformation animation is fukin hilarious lol
I remember thinking the 3d graphics were very impressive. Great memories
I only recently completed this game without cheats about a year ago.it takes alot of time n patience strategy.
Back to the past... thank You :)
The only drawback with this game was that the controls were quite fiddly if you weren't a very good gamer, like I wasn't.
But my god, the design! Looks even better now than it did then. Wonderful. And the whole world is totally immersive.
Was there ever a game that was a greater leap forwards?
With the release of Rare Replay, I wonder is they'll release Pentagram and get back into making Mire Mare. So they can finish the Sabreman series.
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Eight years before Landstalker
i remember also there being a similar game but instead you transformed into a robot and the theme was futuristic and scifi instead.. not sure what the timer was though
Alien 8? ruclips.net/video/eDhSH-GJDqE/видео.html
I was never able to finish this game at the time, but the end appears to be soooooo disappointing.....
Amazing! How could you remember the whole game? What to do and how... Like! 👍
0:43 took me by surprise :-)
48K how was that game possible?
it's actually less than that because the 48K included the video RAM (256x192 =6144 bytes for the monochrome + 768 bytes for the color information = 6912 bytes).
Looks like Solstice/Equinox but before that.
This company later made Battletoads
mind blower!
yeah gonne play this on my xbox one ;p
Thanks for this. Can you hoard items in the wizards' room (or a close-by room) until the cauldron requires it? I'm also guessing you should always keep at least one item on you for navigating certain rooms? :o
Hi. You can store up to two items in a room. Yep, it's handy to carry an item with you to jump over walls etc. Pressing jump and collect at the same time picks up the object.
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Thanks for the tips! Just started this on Rare Replay and was slightly confused on what to do at first.
Another handy tip is if you enter the cauldron room as a wolf, the cauldron sparkle will attack you. But if you drop an object, the sparkle will stay in the cauldron. Also the bouncing balls that move around the room will be attracted to you as the wolf, but repelled as a man.
There's a couple of rooms (or possibly just one room) I see where you stand on a small square which itself is on top of a ball. You then navigate past spikes to the exit. Do you just face the direction you want to go? It seems a bit random for me and I'm going all over the place.
The room at 5:53 I think it. :)
zlatej gumák! best game on ZX! only 48kB.. I would like to play remake version 48GB! With current HW
ugh, i wish the objects in my game were in the same place as yours
Love this game ;-)
wow! the whole thing ive seen! 😍😍😍😍😍
Много я играл в неё, но из за незнания языка не было понимания. Поэтому просто ходил туда сюда.
As much as I liked the graphics, I never got to finish this one.
круто ))) я ее помню )))
Someone's played this before!
You would be searching and looking for keys and stuff
Primer videojuego con perspectiva isometrica.
BTW...who on earth gave this a thumbs-down..?
People who dont know bro, They wernt there bro, they wernt there
Then you would meet Frankenstine or Dracula or a Mummy
Damn, 14 charms to break the curse! I could only get 10 by the 40th day. Time to start over -_-
***** Good luck! Once you memorise the map layout more and the location of objects, it does become easier!
The music is scary
This and the castle were very frustrating to play 😑
Classic game
35 days? Now you must do it in under 20 :P
Thx! I always want to know what on the end, now i know.Спасибо. Я всегда хотел узнать чем наконец заканчивается это заебистая задротская игра на которую я тратил много времени и нервов. Сам я таки не осилил.
Looks better than some XBOX One trailers .. Just sayin
играл в нее на советском компьютере "Агат" в ч/б. Казалась жутко мрачной
Ahí un juego parecido en la super Nintendo,Equinox,pero en ambientación y jugabilidad prefiero a este
this game is hard as fuck lol
88% complete.. what are we missing from this completed game?
You need to visit all the rooms to get 100%
Then SabreMan goes to HailFire Peaks and is frozen for 15 years
+Token Green holy shit it all makes sense now!!
what a peculiar game. is there a remake?
But,there's a remake for pc? :c
Is this the precursor to Solstice?
Not officially. Solstice was "inspired by" Knight Lore ie. a blatant copy that changed things just enough to avoid being sued by Ultimate Play the Game.
Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but I found Knight Lore to be very tedious at times due to the awful slowdown. Of course there's no colour clash - the entire game was monochrome. For me, it lacked the pace, intensity and sense of adventure which the wonderfully colourful Sabre Wulf had. Don't get me wrong, KL was excellent but overrated imo.
Jon Ahmad completely agree. I used to have huge urges to play this but gave up for the reasons you have. The lag was far too tedious.
the color clash wasn't the main thing... having items "in front" and "in back" was revolutionary