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Knight Orc

Genres: Adventure

Released on: Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST/STE, Mac, DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Amstrad CPC, MSX

Developer: Level 9 Computing

Publishers: Firebird , Rainbird

Themes: Fantasy

Game Modes: Single player

Perspectives: Third person, Text

Platform Release Dates:
Platform Release Date
Amiga December 31, 1987
Amstrad CPC December 31, 1987
Apple II December 31, 1987
Atari 8-bit December 31, 1987
Atari ST/STE December 31, 1987
Commodore C64/128/MAX December 31, 1987
DOS December 31, 1987
MSX December 31, 1987
Mac December 31, 1987
ZX Spectrum December 31, 1987

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About:

Knight Orc is a standard text adventure game, with limited graphics on some platforms, by Level 9 released in 1987. It comes with a short novella by Peter McBride ("The Sign of the Orc") explaining the background to the story. After a night of heavy drinking with friends, Grindleguts the orc awakes to find himself strapped to a horse and about to joust with a human knight. His "friends" are nowhere to be seen, and he must somehow escape from his predicament and get even with them. Grindleguts must survive in a world of hostile humans while seeking revenge against his tormentors. After the first chapter, the game switches to science fiction setting where Grindleguts is revelaled to be a malfunctioning non-player character in a futuristic MMORPG. Using his power of transitioning between fantasy and reality, he convinces several other bots to join him, and escapes from the simulated reality facility.

Story:

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