Knightmare (video game)
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| Knightmare | |
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| Developer(s) | Konami |
| Publisher(s) | Konami |
| Platform(s) | MSX home computer |
| Release date | 1986 |
| Genre(s) | Shoot 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Media | Cartridge |
| Input methods | Keyboard, Joystick |
Knightmare is a 1986 MSX vertical scrolling shooter computer game. The player is a knight, who has to fight his way through several levels.
Knightmare was an innovative upward-scrolling Shoot 'em up game on the MSX system. The top-view graphics were considered very sophisticated for its time, similar to other MSX games such as Nemesis and Penguin Adventure.
The graphics are also notable for being developed with a keen awareness of the Texas Instruments TMS9918 Video Display Controller that the MSX incorporated. The enemies (notably the bats) had additional shadow sprites that, being placed at a vertical offset, did not add further pressure on the max-4-sprites-per-scanline limit of the TMS9918.
[edit] Conversions
Knightmare has been converted for i-mode enabled cellphones in 2003 by Konami.
The game is also found in the compilation Konami Antiques MSX Collection for Saturn and PlayStation.
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