Dragons of Flame
Dragons of Flame is a video game released in 1989 for various home computer systems and consoles. It is a sequel to Heroes of the Lance.
Also recorded as Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragons of Flame
Dragons of Flame
- Date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Strategic Simulations
- Genre
- action-adventure game
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Dragons of Flame is a video game released in 1989 for various home computer systems and consoles. It is a sequel to Heroes of the Lance.
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• Title — Dragons of Flame • Developer — U.S. Gold Atelier Double (Famicom) • Publisher — Strategic Simulations U.S. Gold • Composer — Hitoshi Sakimoto, Takeshi Yasuda (FM Towns/Famicom/PC-9801) • Series — Dragonlance • Released — 1989 • Genre — Action adventure • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, FM Towns, Famicom, MS-DOS, PC-9801, ZX Spectrum
Gameplay
Gameplay
Like Heroes of the Lance it is arcade oriented, with few RPG elements. The style of the game is very much like its predecessor, horizontally scrolling fighting controlling one character at a time.
Plot
Plot
It is based on the second Dragonlance campaign module, Dragons of Flame, and the second half of the first Dragonlance novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. The plot is a faithful representation of the books it is based on.
Development
Development
Dragons of Flame was adapted from the Dragons of Flame printed adventure module. The game Shadow Sorcerer is a sequel to this game's storyline, but has quite different gameplay.
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1989
Dragons of Flame published.
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Reception
Dragons of Flame was successful for SSI, selling 55,711 copies. According to GameSpy, "while the number of characters was increased to 10, the gameplay remained the same moderately competent, hack-'n-slash, side-scrolling action, marking this as another less than stellar entry on SSI's resume". ST Action magazine reviewed the Atari ST version, giving it an overall score of 73%: "When U.S. Gold announced they were going to produce an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons range I thought we were going to be in for the usual graphic-lacking role-playing games.... I've been proven very wrong. This latest game seems to offer more of a challenge than its predecessor, Heroes of the Lance.... The thing I noticed about Dragons of Flame was the playability. Although the game uses complex menus, they have all been set out in a friendly, easy-to-use manner". ST Action also praised the variety of monsters, graphics, and "well implemented" gameplay.
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The circumstances in which Dragons of Flame stands. Issued for Nintendo Entertainment System. Published by Strategic Simulations. Composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto. Issued for Commodore 64. Issued for ZX Spectrum. Developed by U.S. Dragons of Flame was issued for Amstrad CPC. Dragons of Flame is recorded as video game.
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- 1.Dragons of Flame. Zzap!. 59. 23. March 1990. 0954-867X.
- 2.MobyGames. Dragons of Flame.
- 3.World of Spectrum. Dragons of Flame.
- 4.Maher, Jimmy. Opening the Gold Box, Part 5: All That Glitters is Not Gold. The Digital Antiquarian. 2017-03-31.
- 5.Rausch, Allen. A History of D&D Video Games. GameSpy. August 15, 2004.
- 6.Gollner Publishing. Dragons of Flame Review. ST Action. 21. 58–59. January 1990.
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