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Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior and its sequel, Barbarian II: Dungeons of Drax are computer games. The Barbarian name was used in Europe, and in USA, the games were marketed as Death Sword. Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64) was a popular home computer of the 1980s. ...
A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ...
Barbarian
The first part was released around 1987 and 1988 for most of the prominent 8-bit and 16-bit platforms. In general, the games were developed by British company Palace Software Ltd. Other companies did the porting for some platforms. Superior Software was responsible for the BBC Micro port, and Designer Software did Apple II and PC conversions. Publishing was mostly done by Epyx and Palace Software themselves, depending on platform. Superior Software are a software house which focussed on the machines of Acorn Computers Ltd throughout the 1980s and 1990s. ...
Top view of the BBC Micro The BBC Micro, affectionately known as the Beeb, was an early home computer. ...
Epyx, Inc. ...
Barbarian is a one- or two-player fighting game. As the name suggests, the fighters are barbarians. The game offers sword combat in various locales. The game has also an one-player plot mode, where the player has to defeat several fighters to fight evil wizard Drax to rescue princess Marina. The game was greatly inspired by sword and sorcery fantasy stories like Conan the Barbarian. Barbarian was originally a Greek term applied to any foreigner, one not sharing a recognized culture or degree of polish with the speaker or writer employing the term. ...
A sword (from Old English sweord; akin to Old High German swerd lit. ...
This article is about a fantasy sub-genre. ...
Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian, from the name of his homeland, Cimmeria) is a literary character created by Robert E. Howard in a series of fantasy pulp stories published in Weird Tales in the 1930s. ...
The original game received critical acclaim as one of the best hand to hand fighting games for the platform, while generating controversy for the level of violence (players could decapitate one another) and depiction of women in skimpy bikinis.
Barbarian II Barbarian II, a scrolling fighting game, was considered by most to be a disappointment.
External links - MobyGames entry for Commodore 64 and Amiga versions (http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,10468/)
- MobyGames entry for Apple II, Atari ST, and MS-DOS versions (http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,1033/)
- Beebgames (http://www.beebgames.com/superior.htm)
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