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Asterix & Obelix: Searching for the Black Gold

An adventure game only released in Germany but comes in German, French and English. It is essentially a digital version of the comic book “Asterix and the Black Gold” with voice acting, several minigames and…

31 December 1997

Asterix & Obelix: Searching for the Black Gold is an arcade, released 31 December 1997 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Asterix & Obelix: Searching for the Black Gold is

Asterix & Obelix: Searching for the Black Gold was released in 1997. It was published by Egmont Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

An adventure game only released in Germany but comes in German, French and English. It is essentially a digital version of the comic book “Asterix and the Black Gold” with voice acting, several minigames and an encyclopedia about Asterix and various things mentioned in the comic.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Asterix series

Asterix & Obelix: Searching for the Black Gold is the 21st of 63 entries we hold in the Asterix series. It arrived 2 years after Astérix and the Power of the Gods. The next entry was Astérix: The Gallic War in 1998.

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What it launched against

Asterix & Obelix: Searching for the Black Gold launched on 31 December 1997, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

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