THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE



THE MIGHTY MAGUS



PUBLISHER

Quicksilva



AUTHOR

Neil Pawson, Ian Horn



YEAR



CATEGORY

Platform



CONTROLS

Can't recall, they were definable from the main menu though.



DESCRIPTION

The Mighty Magus is a scrolling platform game.



INSTRUCTIONS

you have to get a wizard down through around thirty levels of

dungeon, kill the dragon and back to the top again. There where

an increasing number of monsters to fight on the way down and

chests/rubbish piles to search for spellpower, life energy and

magic items.  Traps in the floor did various nasty things and

have to be watched for carefully.  The dungeon was automatically

generated each time the game was played, only to top and bottom

layers stayed the same.



The number keys cast the spells (higher the number, more powerful

the spell), and that spells make walls temporarily passable.



CHEATS

When killing the dragon stand on the stairs to the left of its

range and kill it with spells, neither the dragon nor its fire

will reach you.



SCORES RECEIVED

The game got good reviews in some magazines but was badly let

down by flickery graphics (not mine I might add, the dungeon

structure and display was mine, the monsters and the wizard was

Ians. Quicksilva's distributer went bust as the game was released

and it took them a while to get a new one, this didn't help us

much!  Software projects were also interested but we chose

Quicksilva, c'est la vie.

