Lords of Midnight was a seminal and ground breaking game from the 80's. I played it on the spectrum 48k. It is still amazing that such a huge gaming area could be squeezed into such a small size of memory. In the game you took control of a cast of characters and sent them out into the fantasy lands of the game to recruit more people to lead your armies and to gather more troops from guard towers and fortresses. As you gathered your forces, your enemy to the north was doing the same. There was even a barbarian chief whom could be swayed either way - the Utag of Utag, who had a large army and a good tactic was to race up the map as quickly as possible to recruit him. The game had great depth and strategy and it was very hard and took a long time to play. Me and my dad loved it and we even drew out the map on a cork board so we could move pins around on it! The pins had the coats of arms of all our heroes and armies on them so we could keep track of our troops movements!
Graphically it was very simple by todays standards but it was amazing at the time and showed a 3D world of mountains and forests. Just in blue and white though as the ZX spectrum was never much good at colour. The heroes were colour though and very expressive for such simple graphics. The sequel was called Doomdarks Revenge.
Graphically it was very simple by todays standards but it was amazing at the time and showed a 3D world of mountains and forests. Just in blue and white though as the ZX spectrum was never much good at colour. The heroes were colour though and very expressive for such simple graphics. The sequel was called Doomdarks Revenge.
