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Your views on...Cavelon

CUCHULAINNCUCHULAINN
edited December 2014 in Games
Cavelon:

A very addictive game. Simple graphics, a catchy [but sometimes annoying] in game tune and good playability. I could still play this now and enjoy it.

;-)
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  • sirclive1sirclive1
    edited November 2006
    i loved cavelon when it first came out , saw the review in crash and desperatly wanted it , a mate came round with it and i grabbed a copy , a really good game.
  • Bluce_ReeBluce_Ree
    edited November 2006
    i liked it because i'd played the arcade version. wasnt an amazing conversion but seemed playable enough.
  • liamenikufesinliamenikufesin
    edited November 2006
    One of the first games i played on the speccy, a classic! :)
  • FrankieFrankie
    edited November 2006
    I remember seeing the screenshot for Cavelon in a Sinclair User review, thinking 'that's just my kind of game', and it was :)

    A really addictive game, but also very frustrating sometimes.

    Bye.
  • InsertFaveGameNameHereInsertFaveGameNameHere
    edited November 2006
    I love this game, great conversion really and I still love playing it now. hurrah for cavelon! I never completed it though.
  • Technician-TedTechnician-Ted
    edited November 2006
    Another one here who loved it back then. Still a good game today, very hard though.
  • ZagrebZagreb
    edited November 2006
    I don't think I've ever played Cavelon. Think I'll give it a go today.
  • Pascal TournoisPascal Tournois
    edited November 2006
    The name sounded familiar but I couldn't remember anything about it. Just fired it up, what fond memories it brings back... And the music was brillant. I spent many hours on it 20 years ago or so. It looks and sounds very modern for a 1984 game!

    Thanks for letting me remember this classic game!
  • Lee_dCLee_dC
    edited November 2006
    just giving this one a go now. how do you activate the "excalibur" thing? i read in one of the reviews that it makes you temporarily invincible? the knight's shield doesn't seem to be holding up very well against the arrows :-)
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited December 2014
    *buuuuummmmp*

    Cavelon is one of my fave maze games. Simple concept and very addictive. Even the tune is cool! :-)

    I didn't know it was a conversion of an arcade game, btw.
  • FizzaFizza
    edited December 2014
    To quote Bruce Forsythe; 'Good game, good game'. For some reason I always feel like Cavelon and Sir Lancelot were in the same series of games.. It may not be known so well also that there was Cavelon II, but it apparently only came out for the C64.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited December 2014
    Bloody ell' this is an old thread ;)

    I don't really like Cavelon that much, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the game I just find it a little clunky and unforgiving at times.
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  • R-TapeR-Tape
    edited December 2014
    There's a lot of things I like about it, but like so many Spectrum games - too bloody hard/unfair.
    My speccy games.
  • colecole
    edited December 2014
    I loved cavelon and managed to complete it without pokes.
    I really liked the way the background music only played when you walked.

    The c64 version isn't as good and is a bit flawed as the opposing knights never seems to move totally to an edge before turning around making them impossible to shoot in certain circumstances.
  • Alessandro GrussuAlessandro Grussu
    edited December 2014
    I only played it this year for the HARP. Still not bad although playing definitely dated - very picky and unforgiving, soon turning into a memory exercise.
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  • de Vandemar Croupde Vandemar Croup
    edited December 2014
    great little game!
    though never got through the first level, not once, frustrating as hell - but sooo addictive and nicely executed I couldn't stop coming back to it here and there.
    loved the music. like in manic miner I couldn't be bothered by the loop :)

    first time saw the other levels after discovering emulators and WoS - and tried the POKEs.... 8-)
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  • FrankieFrankie
    edited December 2014
    Always loved this game, and that will never change :)
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