8 /10 1 Votes
Release date(s) 1987 Mode(s) Single player Developer Coktel Vision | 4/5 My Abandonware Genre(s) Arcade/adventure Initial release date 1987 Publishers Coktel Vision, Cedic Vifi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, DOS, MS-DOS, AmigaOS Similar Coktel Vision games, Adventure games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Asterix and the Magic Carpet is a computer game for the Amstrad CPC, Thomson TO8, Commodore 64, Amiga, and Atari ST home computers and for PCs running MS-DOS. The game is based on the eponymous volume 28 of the popular French Asterix comic books and was released in 1987.
Asterix and the Magic Carpet starts as a graphical adventure game where you can select a character on the screen with a cursor and select what he should say, which then influences how the rest of the game plays out. Occasionally there a Pac-Man-like mini arcade games where Asterix has to defeat legionnaires, wild boars, or other enemies in a maze with the help of Obelix who oscillates back and forth in a fixed section of the maze. So the general approach is to catch an enemy's attention, then run away and hide behind Obelix, who will hopefully defeat the enemy.