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Pagan influences in speccy games

retromadretromad
edited February 2015 in Games
Possibly due to its Englishness, the Spectrum seems to have quite a fair share of games that have pagan influence.

Obviously the sword n sorcery tolkien-esq games lend themselves to that ideal,
but still, it seems very much an 80's / spectrum phenomena...doesn't happen so much these days.
There are also a lot with old mythology - avalon myths / greek mythology etc

Can you think of any examples ??

Tir Na Nog
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005292

Druid
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001528

Feud...Collecting herbs felt pagany
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0001744

Alchemist
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000139

Chaos
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000894

Quest for Witchcraft
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0027261
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  • SliderSlider
    edited February 2015
    Myth ;)
  • morphmorph
    edited February 2015
    Gods is chock full of ancient Greek myths. The Book Of The Dead is everything you need to know about Egyptian myths.

    TBH, 'Pagan' is such a wide ranging net that I'm struggling to think of anything that is explicitly non-pagan. Stonkers?
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited February 2015
    One Man And His Druid
  • morphmorph
    edited February 2015
    def chris wrote: »
    One Man And His Druid

    :) A Beard's Tale?
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited February 2015
    Slaine. Really need to play that again myself, I remember really enjoying that back in the day. :smile:
  • David JonesDavid Jones
    edited February 2015
    def chris wrote: »
    One Man And His Druid
    Findus Kippers?

    Ok, not pagan, just a bit fishy, but I wanted to get in on the punning :)
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited February 2015
    Any game based on ancient Greece or Rome like Gift from the Gods, Gladiator, The Fall of Rome, Perseus and Andromeda, Legions of Death...
  • JuanF. RamirezJuanF. Ramirez
    edited February 2015
    Pyracurse, located in a pre-columbian citadel.
  • joefishjoefish
    edited February 2015
    Not just the Speccy - if you've never seen Wicked on an ST you should give it a try. Full of mystic symbols, constellations, tarot cards, spooky bleeding eyes and monsters. Your character in the game is a burning human sacrifice based on da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.
    Joefish
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  • de Vandemar Croupde Vandemar Croup
    stormlord in that case, I'd say :)

    G! - That makes sense in BASIC 0:1
  • LunyLuny
    Has no-one mentioned Robin O Wood yet? It even has those pagan weavy patterns on the graphics.

    Warlord by Interceptor Micro?

    Brian Bloodaxe.

    Kototoni wilf.. No maybe not.

    Sod it!

    @luny@mstdn.games
    https://www.luny.co.uk
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    Camelot Warriors.

    Cauldron 1 and maybe 2.

    Curse of Sherwood.

    Heartbroken.

    Dark Sceptre.

    Soft n' Cuddly.

    Go to Hell.

    Frightmare.

    Here's a few, and although not strictly pagan, the occult and Satanism is often associated/confused with it. So erm...there we go.
    Every night is curry night!
  • retromadretromad
    dm_boozefreek said:

    not strictly pagan, the occult and Satanism is often associated/confused with it. So erm...there we go.

    ahem.... yes.
    confused indeed.

    The robin games I agree.... robin goodfellow n all.
    n Stormlord... yep -= love that one
  • FizzaFizza
    edited July 2015
    Pagan imagery and themes are very popular in videogames that are European/British, it's the history and it isn't necessarily occult, whereas I think when it's from the US there is definitely more of an occult theme to it due to the underlying history not being present in US history (at least post-colonization, which is what people consider US history).

    Don't forget Avalon, Knight Lore, etc. Discounting things like racing and sports games I think you'd have a smaller job listing the games that didn't have this influence, it would be lesser in sci-fi settings possibly, although a lot of sci-fi is just magic/sorcery but in space, with the pseudo-scientific pretext that because it's the future, the advanced technology means it can exist..
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  • SnazzyParrotSnazzyParrot
    Magicland Dizzy
    Dizzy Prince of The Yolk Foilk
    Curse of Sherwood
    Manic Miner
    Castle Master
    Judge Druid
    Asterix and the Magic Cauldron
    Roman Empire
  • teardropexplodesteardropexplodes
    Valhalla, one of the first speccy games I bought. Incredibly pagan, full of Norse mythology.
  • JimmoJimmo
    Dragontorc as well
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