The Legend of King Arthur
Sierra On-Line released Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail for IBM PC MS-DOS in March of 1990. Conquests of Camelot is a graphics adventure game that employs Sierra On-Line's menu-driven and text-input interface of Kings Quest IV of 1988.
Conquests of Camelot is the predecessor of Conquests of the Longbow of 1991.
In Conquests of Camelot the player assumes the role of King Arthur as he leaves Camelot in search of the Holy Grail and three of his missing knights, Gawain, Lancelot and Galahad.
If King Arthur does not donate one gold coin to the Mithras and Christ altars in the temple at Camelot, he will be crushed by the heavy iron portcullis as he rides out of the castle gates on his warhorse. [1]
Conquest of Camelot contains many legend-history descriptions. King Arthur wears a mail tunic and wields Excaliber on-hand and a shield off-hand. King Arthur can also wield a spear and joust with a lance when on horseback.
Conquests of Camelot tracks three scores: Skill, Wisdom and Soul. Skill pertains to questing and combat (arcade sequences), Wisdom to examining and dialogue ("lore"), and Soul to morality or code of conduct. 40 common verbs are interpreted by the text parser.
Conquests of Camelot displays in 16-color EGA 320x200 or 16-color VGA 320x200 or 16-color IBM PS/2 Model 25 & 30 MCGA 320x200.
Conquests of Camelot was programmed by David Slayback, designed by Christy Marx, drawn by Peter Ledger and composed by Mark Seibert.
Conquests of Camelot was distributed on 4x 3.5" 720kB DD diskettes or 10x 5.25" 360kB DD floppy disks and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via custom installer. The install size is 3 megs and consists of 25 files.
Conquests of Camelot audio supports Internal Speaker, Tandy 1000 3-voice SL, TL and HL Series, Sound Blaster (23-voice), Creative Music System / Game Blaster (12-voice), AdLib Music Synthesizer Card (11-voice) and Roland MT-32, MT-100, LAPC-1, CM-32L and CM-64 (8 synth parts and 30 rhythm sounds).
Conquests of Camelot characters: King Arthur, Merlin, Guinevere, Lancelot, Gawain, Galahad, Lady of the Lake, Mad Monk, Black Knight, Al Sirat.
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail Manual Liber Ex Doctrina: 29 pages.
Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail Hint Book: 61 pages.
[1] And this is one of the many examples of trial-and-error "gameplay" that is characteristic of Sierra On-Line adventure games, which causes save-scumming.
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