Stormlord

• Title — Stormlord • Developer — Hewson Consultants • Publisher — Hewson Consultants 21st Century Entertainment • Designer — Raffaele Cecco • Composer — Johannes Bjerregaard Jeroen Tel Jochen Hippel (ST) • Released — 1989 • Genre — Platform • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Oric, Genesis, Symbian OS, ZX Spectrum

The player can eliminate enemies by throwing a star-like weapon and travel rapidly from place to place by means of a particularly-powerful trampoline. In certain versions, this was replaced by a falcon. However, sometimes the journeys must be carefully planned out, since the falcon can transport the player on one-way trips, and if all fairies have not been freed from the previous area, it will be impossible to win. The player has a limited amount of time to finish (before the sunset).

Razorsoft, in order to publish the Genesis release in the American market, requested that Punk Development add clothing to cover up the fairies' bare breasts. In August 1991 Sega announced that it was bringing legal action against RazorSoft for unauthorized use of Sega's "trademarks, copyrights and logos," and a breach of contract, leading to a rumor that this lawsuit was the cause of the censorship. However, programmer Kevin Seghetti stated that the changes on the Genesis version were undertaken voluntarily, and the lawsuit was due to Razorsoft manufacturing cartridges themselves. When Amstrad Action gave the complete CPC version of the game away on their free covertape, they edited the game to conceal the controversial fairy graphics with a black square, with the intention of avoiding controversy with their young readership or their parents.