Avalon (video game)

This article is about the 1984 adventure game. For other games, see Avalon (disambiguation) § Games.

Avalon (with the tagline The 3D Adventure Movie on the box cover) is an action-adventure game written by Steve Turner for the ZX Spectrum and published by Hewson Consultants in 1984.^[1] Avalon was followed by a sequel in 1985, Dragontorc.^[1]

Avalon
Cover art
Developer(s)	Steve Turner
Publisher(s)	Hewson Consultants
Designer(s)	Steve Turner[1]
Platform(s)	ZX Spectrum
Release	EU: 1984
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Plot

Avalon is set in Britain in the year 408, during the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The player controls Maroc, a "lore-seeker" who has been given a staff and map by a strange old woman and pointed in the direction of a place called Glass Hill on the isle of Avalon, where a quest to defeat the Lord of Chaos begins.^[2]

Gameplay

Avalon involves controlling Maroc the mage in his quest to destroy Avelach, Lord of Chaos.^[3] The player's character cannot be killed. The game world is explored by an astral projection of Maroc; if Maroc's energy is depleted the projection returns to Maroc's "physical" body on the start screen, from which the game can be continued.^[4][5]

Reception

Reception

Awards

Publication	Award
Crash	Crash Smash[6]
C+VG	Game of the Month[7]

The game was well received and attained numerous awards from critics.

• 91% (CRASH #10, November 1984).^[5]
• Home Computing Weekly^[8]
• Sinclair User^[9]
• Computer and Video Games^[10]
• Eurogamer.net^[11]
• Personal Computer Games^[12]
• MicroHobby^[13]