Discworld
Mar 17, 1995
- Point-and-click
- Puzzle
- Adventure
Platforms: DOS, Mac, PlayStation, Sega CD, Sega Saturn
IGDB community rating 8.3IGDB55 votes
Overview
Discworld is a game released for PC (subsequently Mac, and Playstation) by Teeny Weeny / Perfect 10 studios in 1995. The game was released both on floppy disk and CD-Rom. The latter featured a commentary team created of many veterans of famous Brit-Coms. This included Monty Python's Eric Idle, Radio 4's (later to be more famous) Rob Brydon, ex- Doctor Who John Pertwee, 70s pop singer Kate Robbins, and Blackadder star Tony Robinson. The game is a riff on the Discworld title 'Guards, Guards', however many elements of the text have been shifted, not least the inclusion of Rincewind as protagonist. The game featured puzzles which were considered far too difficult and obtuse for gamers of the time, but the game itself has had a lasting legacy, now being accepted into such emulators as SCUMMVM.
Story
A typically nasty secret order has summoned up a dragon, and is using it to wreak havoc upon the city. But it's not down to Carrot and co to stop it. It's down to Rincewind, the highly inept wizard. The player takes control of him, and try to save the city from destruction, in a journey that takes you from Ankh-Morpork to the edge of the Disc and beyond. The game incorporates many characters from non-Rincewind Discworld adventures, such as Nanny Ogg, The Ankh-Morpork guards, Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler, Trolls, the Patrician and Death.
- Developed by
- Perfect Entertainment, Perfect 10 Productions, Teeny Weeny Games
- Published by
- Psygnosis, Dro Soft, Psygnosis Limited, Media Entertainment
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Facts
- Game modes
- Single player
- Player perspectives
- Side view
- Themes
- Fantasy, Historical, Comedy
- Series
- Discworld
- Release dates
- Sega CD: Jan 1995
- DOS: Mar 17, 1995
- Mac: Mar 17, 1995
- PlayStation: Oct 15, 1995
- Sega Saturn: Aug 15, 1996
