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Welcome to Game of the Week! Each week there will be a new featured game on this page. The game may be good, average or diabolically bad, it really doesn't matter! Just look at the pics, read the text and enjoy the nostalgia! :-) Game of the Week! is open to contributions so if you would like to contribute a game article for this page you're more than welcome to! Every article we receive will be considered!
Archon
1983 Electronic Arts
Programmed by Anne Westfall, Jon Freeman & Paul Reiche III
 
Most text of the present article comes from the Top 64 list of C64 games, as published in the third issue of the British C64 magazine ZZAP!64 (July 1985).
 

 

ARCHON
Ariolasoft, £9.95 cass, £11.95 disk

Great new strategy game based on chess but taking things a step further. The players not only have to employ the tactics of chess, but also shmup phases as pieces battle for squares. The pieces all come from mythology and have different movement patterns.

 

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