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Death Sword
Palace Software
December 29, 1987
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FightingDevelopers
Palace SoftwareRelease Date
December 29, 1987 (37 years and 4 months ago)Publishers
Klassix, U.S. Gold, L.K. Avalon, Palace Software, Epyx, Superior Software Ltd., Palace SoftwareFranchises
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Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior is a video game first released for Commodore 64 personal computers in 1987; the title was developed and published by Palace Software, and ported to other computers in the following months. The developers licensed the game to Epyx, who published it as Death Sword in the United States. Barbarian is a fighting game that gives players control over sword-wielding barbarians. In the game's two-player mode, players pit their characters against each other. Barbarian also has a single-player mode, in which the player's barbarian braves a series of challenges set by an evil wizard to rescue a princess.
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BBC Microcomputer System, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST/STE, Acorn Electron, DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Amstrad CPCDevelopers
Palace SoftwareRelease Date
December 29, 1987 (37 years and 4 months ago)Publishers
Klassix, U.S. Gold, L.K. Avalon, Palace Software, Epyx, Superior Software Ltd., Palace SoftwareFranchises
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