Ludography
71/100
Metacritic4 critic reviews
Player reviews
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Runs on
Windows
Price
US$3.99

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1986 · Gremlin Interactive · Action · Platformer

Future Knight

Rescue Princess Amelia from the evil clutches of Spegbott the Terrible!

Released
1986
Platforms
Amstrad CPCCommodore 16Commodore 64Commodore C64/128/MAXMSXWindowsZX Spectrum
Genres
ActionPlatformer
Developers
Gremlin Interactive
Publishers
Gremlin Interactive
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
ActionFantasyScience fiction
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Composers
Ben Daglish

About

Future Knight is a 2D, flip screen platform game released by Gremlin Graphics in 1986 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MSX, and ZX Spectrum. The player must guide Randolph through twenty levels of hostile robots and aliens before defeating Spegbott and rescuing Amelia.

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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

An undocumented level editor is included in the Spectrum version which can be accessed from the main menu by pressing the key combination EDIT-F-K.

Story

The space cruiser S.S. Rustbucket has crashed on Planet 2749 of the Zragg System, and its passengers been taken hostage by Spegbott the Terrible and his minions. Among them is the Princess Amelia, beloved of the Future Knight Randolph, who has now teleported into the wreck of the Rustbucket to defeat Spegbott and rescue her.

Reception

Sinclair User:If you leave Randolph standing still for too long a period, he'll wave at you as incentive to get a move on. Leave him in the same spot for much longer and things start to get really desperate: Randolph will go completely bezerk, spinning round and round, flailing his arms and panicking in an astoundingly convincing manner. Ignore him then and the chances are his constitution will plummet at a tremendous rate.

The game was reviewed in 1990 in Dragon #158 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column, as part of the Mastertronic MEGA Pack of 10 games previously released in Europe. The reviewers gave the game 1 out of 5 stars, criticizing its premise and gameplay.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Commodore C64/128/MAX31 December 1986Europe
Amstrad CPC31 December 1986Europe
ZX Spectrum31 December 1986Europe
Commodore 1631 December 1986Europe
MSX31 December 1986Europe
Windows8 September 2022Worldwide

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