Rygar Commodore 64

Rygar

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U.S. Gold Ltd.

1987

>4.5 billion years have passed since the earth's creation. Many  >dominators have ruled in all their glory. But Time, their greatest  >enemy, ultimately defeated their reign. >And now a Dominator's reign begins... Rygar, the Legendary Warrior!  >A warrior who respects one code and one code alone, the code of  >combat. Antagonistic gladiators, reptiles, mammals, monsters,  >creatures of magic ... come one, come all, come to meet the might  >of the fearless Rygar and in the words of the immortal warrior,  >LET'S FIGHT!!! > -- <cite>Cassette cover</cite> ***Rygar*** is a video game created by Tecmo in 1986 and originally  released for arcades in Japan as Argus no Senshi. It is a scrolling platform game where the player assumes the role as  the "Legendary Warrior", battling through a hostile landscape. The main  feature of gameplay is using a weapon called the "Diskarmor", a shield  with a long chain attached to it. ***Gameplay*** The player sends the title character (who did not have a proper name  in the Japanese version) through a number of fantastic settings with  the ultimate goal of defeating the evil King Ligar in order to restore  peace to the realm of Argool[4] (Argus in the Japanese version). To  accomplish this goal, Rygar/the Warrior must visit five Indora gods  who present him with essential items needed for completion of the  game. Each of the Indora gods is located in a different realm, and is  almost always guarded by a boss. The player can choose the order in  which some stages are played, but since certain items are required to  reach new areas, choices are somewhat limited. After playing through  the five major realms of the game, he must journey to King Ligar's  flying castle for the final confrontation. "Ligar" (the final boss) can also be romanized as Rygar because in  Japanese there is no distinction between "l" and "r," but the name is  written with the syllable ra (ラ) in katakana. The central player  character is only known as senshi (the Warrior) in the Japanese  version. ***Ports*** The game was ported to the Sharp X68000, Commodore 64, Sega Master  System (Japan only, and renamed Argus no Juujiken, ZX Spectrum 48K,  Amstrad 6128 and the Atari Lynx. It was also included in a compilation  of games called Tecmo Classic Arcade for the Xbox. The arcade version  has also been re-released on the Wii Virtual Console. The Atari Lynx version closely followed the arcade version. However,  the layout of some rounds was different, and there were only 23 rounds. Source:[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rygar_%28video_game%29)