Highlander (video game)

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Highlander
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Developer(s) Canvas (Roy Gibson, Simon Butler, Steven Cain, Martin Calvert)[1]
Publisher(s) Ocean Software Ltd
Platform(s) ZX Spectrum
Release date 1986
Genre(s) Action, beat-em-up
Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer
Media casette tape
System requirements 48K RAM
Input methods Kempston, Interface II, Cursor and Keyboard[1]

Highlander was a video game tie-in to the Highlander franchise. It was released in 1986 by Ocean Software. It was not popular in magazine reviews. Sinclair User gave it two stars of five and called it "a golden turkey".[2] Crash gave it an overall score of 57% and called it "totally boring and quite unplayable".[3] ZZap64 gave it an overall score of 30% and wrote "This is a real case of a film tie-in rip-off".[4]

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