Archon

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Archon

Game No.	35
Developer	Anne Westfall, John Freeman, Paul Reiche III
Company	Free Fall Associates
Publisher	Electronics Arts, Ariolasoft
Musician	{{{Musician}}}
HVSC-File	/Dunbar_Tommy/Archon.sid
Release	1983
Plattform	{{{Plattform}}}
Genre	Board Game, Miscellaneous
Gamemode	1 - 2 Multiple player
Operation
Media
Language
Information	Successors: Archon II - Adept Archon III - Exciter (fan project)

1 Voting
2 Description
3 Design
4 Hints
5 Solution
6 Cheats
7 Critics
8 Miscellaneous
9 Highscore
10 Links
- 10.1 Websites
- 10.2 Videos

[edit] Voting

Voting of the C64-Wiki users (10=the best vote):
8.68 points at 38 votes (rank 18). You need to be logged in to cast a vote.
C64Games	10	7. August 2007 - "highlight" 12550 downs
Lemon64	8,7	7. August 2007 - 144 votes
C64.com	7,5	7. August 2007 - 5237 downs
Kultboy.com	8,8	7. August 2007 - 20 votes
Gamebase64	10	1998 - "A Classic!"
Rombach's C64 game guide	9	September 1984 - "Voting 1"

[edit] Description

Archon - The Light and the Dark looks like a chess game with nine to nine fields and fantasy figures, which carry the names of mythical creatures. The aim of the game is to completely destroy the enemy or to occupy all force fields. In difference to a chess game not only brains are important but also skill. Antagonistic figures cannot be beaten, only challenged for a duel, which is carried out on a seperate field. Both parties do not have the same characters, but throughout different ones, whereas the fighting strength is approximately balanced. The fighting strength of the figures is not constant. It is lower after a fight with many hits and on fields of the opposing colour. The game area contains three different types of fields; the third type changes the colour after every round. On these fields the dark party gets stronger, when the fields are coloured dark and vice versa.

[edit] Design

The characters are partially hard to distinguish from each other, otherwise the game area has good graphics. The area for the duels uses the whole screen, here the figures are better to distinguish. The operation of the figures is done with the joystick and is easy to learn.

[edit] Hints

You can play against the computer or a human partner. For beginners Archon is first of all less a strategic game, as he will lose duels against the computer or a trained partner even with distinctly superior figures.

[edit] Solution

[edit] Cheats

[edit] Critics

Sledgie: "The game is lots of fun. The combination of skill and tactis provides a high attraction."

Worf: "Great game, 1A, in my personal top 5 of computer games! Archon is a chess clone of a special kind. Black fights against White, Dark against Evil, depending on the time the one or the other side has more power. Figures not just get beaten, but an arena opens up, in which both figures compete against each other. You can win the game by beating all opposing figures or by occupying all power magic points. The main figure, the sorcerer, has particularly many abilities. If you don't know it, you've missed a thing. It is best playes at the real C64 with two players."

Tulan: "One of the best C64 games ever, rank 2 after Giana Sisters in my personal C64 charts :)." I played this game on the original C64 and now I continue playing it on the PC with the CCS64. My tip: Connect the PC to a beamer and arrange a championship with your friends. A game with a similar fun factor is in my opinion "Super Dog Fight"

STRATAK: Smashing game - on the amiga there was a nicer version and the figures were also better to recognize. By the way I like it better than Archon II.