Eye of Horus (video game)

Eye of Horus
Eye of Horus
Developer(s)	Denton Designs
Publisher(s)	Logotron
Platform(s)	Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Commodore 64
Release	1989

Eye of Horus is a computer game published in 1989 by Fanfare (Britannica Software) for the Amiga.

Plot[]

In Eye of Horus, the player is Horus and must find the pieces of his father, Osiris, and assemble them in order to defeat the evil Set. The pieces of Osiris are located within a labyrinth where hieroglyphs come alive to prevent the player from completing this task. Horus possesses papyrus darts to destroy the evil that attacks him, and he also has the ability to turn into a hawk to fly over certain enemies to help him complete his mission. Horus can pick up amulets that can increase his weapons' powers or assist him in other ways.^[1]

Reception[]

The game was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon #169 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 1 out of 5 stars.^[1]

Reviews[]

ST Format - Oct, 1989 84 out of 100 84
Atari ST User - Sep, 1989 8 out of 10 80
The One - Nov, 1989 79 out of 100 79
The Games Machine - Jan, 1990 75 out of 100 75
The Games Machine - Oct, 1989 75 out of 100 75
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Sep, 1989 8.6 out of 12 72
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Jan, 1990

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (May 1991). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (169): 61–65.

External links[]

Eye of Horus at the Amiga Hall of Light
Eye of Horus at Lemon 64
Review in Compute!
Review in Info

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[Dragon169-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (May 1991). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (169): 61–65.

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