Doctor Who and the Warlord (video game)
Doctor Who and the Warlord was a 1985 text-based video game. It was released for the BBC Micro. A ZX Spectrum version of the game was planned but not released.
Publisher's summary
In the first part, you go across a strange planet in the distant future. In your efforts to track down the ever-elusive Doctor, you will encounter interstellar gypsies, lurking androids and, worst of all, King Varangar's mood body guards.
Using your intelligence, fluency and good looks you will need to think, talk and charm your way out of scores of mind-wrenching situations and collect the objects essential to completing the game.
In the second part, the TARDIS spirits you back in time to the Battle of Waterloo, where you will need all your wits to defeat both Napoleon and the malignant Warlord. Finally, pray for a quiet end to your Adventure...
Plot
Side A
Opening text
The year is 2743. You arrive with the Doctor on the planet Quantain, where a century-long war is just coming to a close. You emerge from the Tardis to find deep mist all around.
Travelling north, you stumble into one of the last battles of the long war. The Doctor, however, seems convinced that King Varangar, (an old friend of his) is in some deadly danger, and presses on. In the confusion of the battle you are separated from the Doctor, and caught up in a skirmish.
Something hits you on the back of the head. The last thing you remember as you sink to the ground is cries of "Varangar! Varangar!" answered by "The Warlord! The Warlord!"
Story
to be added
Side B
to be added
Credits
- Designed by Graham Williams
- Implemented by Chessfield Microgames
- BBC Software
Notes
- This video game was the second title to be released by the BBC. The first was Doctor Who: The First Adventure.[1]
- There were several puzzles to complete with two hundred fifty different locations in each part.[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Howe, David J., Stammers, Mark, Walker, Stephen James, 1997, Doctor Who: The Eighties, Doctor Who Books, an imprint of Virgin Books, London, p.166
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