Super Don Quix-ote

Super Don Quix-ote (スーパードンキホーテ) is a laserdisc video game released by Universal (now Aruze) in 1984. In it, the players control the knight Don as he attempts to rescue a princess from an evil witch.

Gameplay

Four in-game screenshots from Super Don Quix-ote

Super Don Quix-ote was very similar to Dragon's Lair and Space Ace; the button controlled the hero's sword and, in most cases, failing a scene would advance you to the next scene, with the failed scene showing up again later in the game. The major difference that set Super Don Quix-ote apart from previous laserdisc games was the fact that an overlaid icon would indicate the time and direction of each correct input, whereas all other laserdisc games at the time gave no indication of correct moves, except an occasional "flash" incorporated into the animation itself. Computer and Video Games opined the game is not as much fun" as Space Ace, but also "a lot less frustrating".[1]

Plot

The game is loosely inspired by its namesake, Don Quixote, and features a heroic young knight named Don on a quest to save his love, the fair princess Isabella, who has been kidnapped by a wicked witch for a sacrifice. Don is accompanied on his travels by a donkey (based on Rocinante, the original Don Quixote's horse), and a fat little man named Sancho (based on Don Quixote's trusty sidekick Sancho Panza).

The closest parallel to the original story is a scene in which Don fights a giant at a windmill. However, the rest of the game pits him against a mummy, a dragon, skeletons, demons, giant snakes, flying electric jellyfish, an animated totem pole, the witch's daughter, and other scenarios with no relation to the original story. The game ends when Don kills the witch and rescues Isabella, and they escape the witch's castle as it is destroyed.

Universal System 1

It was the first and only game released for the Universal System 1, a standardized laser disc video game system. Several other games were planned for this cabinet, but were never released: Adventure in Middle Earth, Adventure Mr. Do!, Time Slip, Circus Circus, Space Dracula, and Wilderness Kingdom.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Computer and Videogames Magazine Issue 039". Archive.org. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Super Don Quix-ote". Dragons-lair-project.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Dragon's Lair Italian Tribute - SUPER DON QUIX-OTE - Lasergames". Loneworlds.altervista.org. Retrieved 26 November 2014.

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