Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance
Heroes of the Lance is a side-scrolling action game. The game used actual Dungeons & Dragons statistics, with statistics for the characters exactly as they were in the rule books. Eight heroes from the…
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance is an adventure developed by U.S. Gold, released 31 December 1988 on Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System/Mark III and Amiga.
What Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance is
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance is an adventure game developed by U.S. Gold and released in 1988. It was published by FCI. It is available on Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System/Mark III, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, FM Towns, MSX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game is based on the first Dragonlance campaign module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, Dragons of Despair, and the first Dragonlance novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Heroes of the Lance focuses on the journey of eight heroes through the ruined city of Xak Tsaroth, where they must face the ancient dragon Khisanth and retrieve the relic, the Disks of Mishakal.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Dungeons & Dragons series
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance is the seventh of 140 entries we hold in the Dungeons & Dragons series. The next entry was Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragons of Flame in 1989.
What it launched against
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance launched on 31 December 1988, within three weeks of Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad and Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
Released around the same time: Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance, Keith Van Eron's Pro Soccer, Laser Squad, Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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