Turns out Christy Marx, creator of Jem and the Holograms & designer of #Sierra #adventuregames #ConquestsOfCamelot and #ConquestsOfTheLongbow, also wrote the plot outline for an issue of #Marvel's 1970s #Conan comics credited to Roy Thomas:
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Gonna (hopefully) wrap up #ConquestsOfTheLongbow today! Come stop by! youtube.com/live/Rav_z6u... #SierraEntertainment
Time to try out an old-school #PointAndClickAdventure game today! Join me as I play #ConquestsOfTheLongbow! youtube.com/live/l9559HE... #SierraEntertainment
My adventure game, Conquests of the Longbow, is included in a list of retro games being offered on the Xbox game pass.
Too bad I don't make anything off it.
www.gamespot.com/articles/gam...
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A fake screenshot of Sierra's Conquests of the Longbow, designed by Christy Marx, showing Robin Hood standing with his Merry Men at night around their campfire in Sherwood Forest. Robin is saying "Prince John's taxes are truly, truly, truly outrageous." An in-joke referring to the theme song of the 1980s animated TV series Jem and the Holograms, also created by Christy Marx.
not an actual screenshot from Conquests of the Longbow, sadly
#sierra #conquestsofthelongbow #robinhood #adventuregames
A screenshot of the overhead map of the Abbey interior in Conquests of the Longbow.
In fact, the way the foliage is drawn on that early map screen reminds me a lot of the Abbey map from Day 5/6.
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An early screenshot of the map of Nottinghamshire in Conquests of the Longbow.
The Nottinghamshire map in the final game.
An early screenshot of the map of Nottinghamshire in Sierra's Conquests of the Longbow, from InterAction vol. 4, #2, Summer 1991, compared with the version in the final game.
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Scans of the Conquests of the Longbow not-quite-final press build seen in French magazine Génération 4 #39.
Scans of the Conquests of the Longbow not-quite-final press build seen in French magazine Génération 4 #39.
Scans of the Conquests of the Longbow not-quite-final press build seen in French magazine Génération 4 #39.
An unused alternate sprite for Robin Hood standing around the Merry Men's campfire, ripped from the resource files of Conquests of the Longbow.
The Génération 4 scans. Notice as well the early Robin Hood sprite in the campfire scene (which is still in the game files, along with an alternate version where it's converted into a pose for Will Scarlet!)
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Scans of the Conquests of the Longbow not-quite-final press build seen in French magazine Joystick #22.
Scans of the Conquests of the Longbow not-quite-final press build seen in French magazine Joystick #22.
The version of Marian's portrait above is earlier than the still WIP one seen in the scans below, from press builds given for review to French magazines Joystick (#22, Dec 1991) and Génération 4 (#39, also Dec 1991 - see next post).
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Screenshots of early versions of the character portraits of the false Scholar/spy and of Maid Marian in Conquests of the Longbow.
Screenshots of early versions of the character portraits of the false Scholar/spy and of Maid Marian in Conquests of the Longbow.
Early screenshots of Conquests of the Longbow from InterAction vol. 5 no. 2 (Summer 1992), showing WIP versions of the character portraits for the false Scholar (Prince John's spy) at the Fair and of Maid Marian.
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The poem is #191 (in Volume 3) in The Collected Poems of JRR Tolkien, edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, which I received as a Christmas gift!
Screenshots are from #Sierra's #ConquestsOfTheLongbow, where this same medieval folklore about amethysts is put to good use by Robin Hood.
Screenshot from the adventure game Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood
What’s your favourite Sierra adventure?
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