Super Robin Hood
Encyclopedia
Super Robin Hood is a platform
action video game featuring Robin Hood
released in November 1985 by Codemasters
. The game was developed by the Oliver twins
on the Amstrad CPC
at the age of 17 and was their first title published by Codemasters.
The Oliver twins were offered £10,000 because sales were expected to be 100,000 with royalties of 10p per unit sold. The twins only possessed one computer working in a spare bedroom in their parents' house, and began between the two of them coding for 23 hours per day, with only breaks of half an hour to allow the hardware to cool. The two worked in shifts or 18 hours per day, seven days a week. If both were awake, one would code on paper and the other using the computer. http://www.blitzgames.com/olivertwins/earlyyears.htm
When released the game received commercial and critical success and Codemasters wanted a follow up, which turned out to be Ghost Hunters released in February 1986.
A similar game with the same name was later re-released with three other titles for the NES
under the name Quattro Adventure.
Platform game
A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...
action video game featuring Robin Hood
Robin Hood
Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....
released in November 1985 by Codemasters
Codemasters
The Codemasters Software Company Limited, or Codemasters is a British video game developer founded by Richard and David Darling in 1986...
. The game was developed by the Oliver twins
Oliver Twins
The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, who started to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school. Their first game, Super Robin Hood for the Amstrad CPC, was published in 1985 by Codemasters...
on the Amstrad CPC
Amstrad CPC
The Amstrad CPC is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom,...
at the age of 17 and was their first title published by Codemasters.
The Oliver twins were offered £10,000 because sales were expected to be 100,000 with royalties of 10p per unit sold. The twins only possessed one computer working in a spare bedroom in their parents' house, and began between the two of them coding for 23 hours per day, with only breaks of half an hour to allow the hardware to cool. The two worked in shifts or 18 hours per day, seven days a week. If both were awake, one would code on paper and the other using the computer. http://www.blitzgames.com/olivertwins/earlyyears.htm
When released the game received commercial and critical success and Codemasters wanted a follow up, which turned out to be Ghost Hunters released in February 1986.
A similar game with the same name was later re-released with three other titles for the NES
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...
under the name Quattro Adventure.
External links
- Super Robin Hood Review in Amstrad User magazine, March 1987
