Barbarian remains one of the most controversial games of the late ’80s.
It’s also a ton of fun!
Where would the 80s have been without the writings of Robert E. Howard?
recalled Palace Softwares Peter Stone, according to the bookBritsoft).
It was Brown who came up with the concept behindCauldron, a shooter-platformer hybrid featuring a witch.
You know these fighting games?
Brown said at a pub meeting one day, Theyre okay, but the characters are too small.
I really want a game with huge, huge characters like, the whole screen.
The result wasBarbarian, which featured some of the largest characters ever seen at the time.
In the UK, the outcry was largely reserved forBarbarians salacious advertising.
In Germany, the game wound up in court for its excessive violence.
He showed the jury the finishing move, andBarbarianwas summarily banned.
But for me,Barbarianhad a bit of an x-factor about it.
Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior,therefore, was far from big, and it was far from clever.
But as Conan simulators went in the 1980s, it was undoubtedly a cut above the rest.
