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Atari ST - Rainbird - 1987

Guild of Thieves (The)

Guild of Thieves (The) — screenshot 11 / 4
Genre
Adventure - Text / Graphics
Year
1987
Language
[unknown]
Publisher
Rainbird
Controls
Keyboard / Mouse
Distributor
Telecomsoft
Players
1
Developer
Magnetic Scrolls
Resolution
Low / Medium / High
Licensed from
-
Programmer(s)
[unknown]
Country
United KingdomFrance
Graphic Artist(s)
Quilley, Geoff / Humphries, TristanMacLean, Duncan
Software
English
Game design
Steggles, Robert
Box/Instructions
English
Musician(s)
[n/a]
License
Commercial
Sound FX
[unknown]
Serial
Cover Artist(s)
ST Type
ST, STe / 0.5MB
MIDI
Version
Dump
Download
Number of Disks
1 / Single Sided
Dump format
Pasti
Protection

OTHER VERSIONS WITH THE SAME TITLE (1)

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Disk 1

ADS (3)

ARTICLE (1)

Anita Sinclair interview

TIPS (2)

TRIVIA (4)

Awards:

British Micro Computing Awards: Game of the Year 1987
Golden Joystick Awards: Adventure Game of the Year 1988

Conversion - Atari 8-bit

Graphics

Features up to 143 colours on-screen simultaneously (introduction screen)
Features up to 19 colours on-screen simultaneously (in-game)

Origins

When the packaging was designed, Magnetic Scrolls were about to include a piece of chewing gum as a freebie. Idea got not implemented further because they would have to print sell-by date on the packaging! (Source: ST Format issue 3)

BOOK / MAGAZINE REVIEWS (1)

Computer + Video Games (C+VG) · May, 1987