Barbarian on Acorn Electron 8 bit vintage home computer

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Gameplay from Barbarian playing on the Acorn Electron 8 bot vintage home computer. Retro Gaming.

This is not a review, walkthrough, playthrough, or demonstration of my playing ability.
It's simply a quick demonstration of the game so that anyone not familiar with these old games can see what it looks like.
It's also here so that I can embed it, along with most of the games in my collection, on my website (see link above).

Any opinions or comments I make regarding these games should largely be taken with a pinch of salt.
They are usually based on my first impressions after a very brief play.

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[Foebane72]

"Barbarian by Dylan"?? What is this, a cracked copy? Naughty!

[SteveBenway]

Cracked? Not at all.

It's an official conversion by Superior Software / Acornsoft, as you can see when I show the game case at the end.

Different people coded different versions for different systems.

Back in the 8 bit tape days, cracking wasn't really a factor, as most kids just copied games using tape to tape functions on their stereos.

[Rockythefishman]

As other comments have said it looked better on the C64, however the controls were BAD. Hte best thing about this game is the box art with women on the cover :) The mum was not happy about that when I had the game on the C64

[Foebane72]

Apologies, Steve:

1. I didn't see the video right to the end and see the packaging,

2. I remember cracks from back in the Amiga days, and I thought they existed before then,

3. The name Dylan on the screen just looks like typical hacking by a cracker - for an official conversion, it just doesn't seem very professional to me. If that's the author's name, where's his surname, at least? ;)

[kevin12567]

About the only interesting thing about this game is the gladiators' ability to roll into balls like Samus from Metroid.

[markvergeer]

Barbarian, had this for the c64. The demo mode has nice animations. I think this plays a helluva lot faster than the c64 version if I remember correctly. :)

[Foebane72]

They may as well be rolling around in the mud, considering how often they do it in the demo, especially both at once :D

[oxxor77]

yeah! one of my favorite games on the c64 but this version is horrible (again! ;))

[DemonmachinE]

It looks better than a lot of the other games you've played, but like most of the other Electron games, it seems pretty suck.

[lettersfromtheleft]

This game looks super boring to play. Barbarian 2 looks like it's more fun.