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1989 · Hewson Consultants · Platformer

Stormlord

Sega console exclusive

Badh the queen has imposed a terrible vengeance on the land by kidnapping the fairies. To restore things their rightful way, you must rescue them.

Released
1989
Platforms
AmigaAmstrad CPCAtari ST/STECommodore 64Commodore C64/128/MAXLegacy Mobile DeviceMS-DOSSega GenesisZX Spectrum
Genres
Platformer
Developers
Hewson Consultants
Publishers
Hewson Consultants
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
ActionFantasy
Country
United Kingdom
Composers
Jeroen Tel

About

Stormlord is a platform game developed and published by Hewson Consultants in 1989. It was released for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, and MS-DOS. It was ported to the Sega Genesis by Punk Development for RazorSoft and published in 1990.

It was followed by a sequel, Deliverance: Stormlord II.

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Gameplay

The player can eliminate enemies by throwing a star-like weapon and travel rapidly from place to place by means of a particularly-powerful trampoline. In certain versions, this was replaced by a falcon. However, sometimes the journeys must be carefully planned out, since the falcon can transport the player on one-way trips, and if all fairies have not been freed from the previous area, it will be impossible to win. The player has a limited amount of time to finish (before the sunset).

Reception

CRASH reviewed the game in their May 1989 issue, giving the game their CRASH Smash award and an overall 91% rating: "Stormlord is immensely playable, highly addictive and a great CRASH Smash." Your Sinclair gave the game a 93 rating stating that the game was "another stormer from Raffaele Cecco. Buy it!" Entertainment Weekly gave the game a B and wrote that the game requires players to think and strategize. In 2010, UGO included Stormlord in the article "25 Sexy Video Game Secrets".

In 2009, GamesRadar included it among the games "with untapped franchise potential", commenting: "Nowadays, thanks to games like Conan and God of War, bare-chested men are free to rescue bare-chested women and Stormlord is ripe for a comeback."

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Amiga31 December 1989Europe
Amstrad CPC31 December 1989Europe
Atari ST/STE31 December 1989Europe
Commodore C64/128/MAX31 December 1989Europe
MS-DOS31 December 1989Europe
ZX Spectrum31 December 1989Europe
Legacy Mobile Device15 December 2005Europe

Editions and related releases

Included in
The C64 Collection 1
Ported as
Stormlord
Built on it
Stormlord

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