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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance

First released on 31 December, 1988 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, ZX Spectrum

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.

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First released on 31 December, 1988 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, ZX Spectrum

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.

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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 Dragonlance novels series must be assembled for the quest, and only one is visible on the screen at a time; when one on-screen hero dies, the next in line appears.

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ZX Spectrum, Atari ST/STE, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, PC DOS, Commodore C64/128, FM Towns, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, MSX

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Single-player

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A British game publisher and distributor founded in Birmingham, UK in 1984.

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Formed from a merger between Pony Inc. and the company Canyon to form Pony Canyon. They published video games and many other forms of media (music, dvd, vhs).

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Strategic Simulations

Strategic Simulations Inc was a developer and publisher notable for its numerous wargame titles.