GARGOYLE GAMES
Started up by work mates Roy Carter and Greg Follis in 1983, by writing Ad Astra in their spare time, Gargoyle Games became one of the leading spectrum games companies in the UK.
AD Astra was Gargoyles first release. An arcade game
with good use of the Spectrums limited colour attributes.
Tir Na Nog was astonishing. No other adventure was as well
written as this, with the best animations in the Spectrum games market to date. No other company
release a game to match this.
With the success of Tir Na Nog, a follow up was immenent.
Dun Darach
is really a prequel to Tir Na Nog, but as a game had more features.
People wanted more of Gargoyle Games adventures. Marsport
was a completely different scenario with different features making this more of the same, but still
just as addictive.
Gargoyle Games wanted a new approach.Heavy
on the Magic was yet another approach to the Gargoyle
style. Using a unique graphics system, enlarging the graphics slightly allowed a much larger scenario.
This game was suppose to be modular and future scenarios were on their way....