Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior and its sequel, Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax are computer games. The Barbarian name was used in Europe, and in USA, the games were marketed as Death Sword.
Barbarian 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 respons...
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Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior and its sequel, Barbarian II: The Dungeon of Drax are computer games. The Barbarian name was used in Europe, and in USA, the games were marketed as Death Sword.
Barbarian 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 and Acorn Electron ports, and Designer Software did Apple II and PC conversions. Publishing was mostly done by Epyx and Palace Software themselves, depending on platform.
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 a one-player plot mode, where the player has to defeat several fighters to fight evil wizard Drax to rescue princess Mariana. The game was greatly inspired by sword and sorcery fantasy...
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