His Dark Majesty

Information

Genre

Adventure - RPG (2-D)

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick

Players

1

Programmer(s)

Debski, Jakub

Graphic Artist(s)

Powroźnik, Adam, Ziembik, Krzysztof

Sound

Husak, Jakub

Cover Artist(s)

[n/a]

Year

2010

Publisher

Ilmenit

Developer

Ilmenit

Country

Poland

License

PD / Freeware / Shareware

Medium

Disk

Rarity

0

Serial

-

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 8.0/10 · Votes: 270 · Downloads: 3,578 · Hits: 18,671

Additional Comments

Screenshots (7)

Comments (14)

• JT — 30 Mar 2023

  Only just tried this game. Can't speak for a full playthrough but quite excellent based on initial impression. Good game design decisions with the joystick interface, and fantastic use of the 6502's full abilities. Very nice.

• rave.N — 8 Feb 2016

  There are two large resolution .jpg "instruction pages" on atariage.com, plus photo(s) of the limited edition disk label. These should be included here.

• thax — 28 Nov 2013

  why did we have to wait so long to get such good quality games? Nice show of the A8s graphic capabilities and nice audio. It would seem the A8 has gone beyond what the creators of it even thought it would do. Greetings to one and all faithful Atari collector/users.

• Marco Nadal — 20 Jun 2013

  Reminds me of Fire Emblem. The one-button interface is a bit confusing, not sure what the different colors mean when you stop next to a hostile unit. But good job putting everything onto a regular joystick. I find it works best at 150% speed, the opening text crawl and in-game music is too slow otherwise. Adjust to taste! ^_^

• Tofu Taco — 24 Aug 2012

  Really great game!

• patarik — 26 Nov 2010

  excelent game

• Steve — 6 Nov 2010

  This is a great game which technically has been put together to the highest order. It's a little frustrating and difficult, but it does make me want to have "just one more game".

• eru — 13 Sept 2010

  Excellent, just amazing.

• Ilmenit — 31 Aug 2010

  The game is automatically saved after each level. To load it just use the "Continue" option.

• marquisor — 29 Aug 2010

  great work! superb done! only pity, you can't save or choose level from where to start with. thx for that game, just played it >3hrs now hehe, the village gets quite hard, have to figure out best tactics. but makes fun :)

• sven86 — 1 Aug 2010

  His Dark Majesty (HDM) is one of the greatest A8 games ever made! It's more of a turn-based strategy game than an RPG game, very similar to the Langrisser series and even a bit like Final Fantasy Tactics. Now if only there's a version for VBXE... :)

• LS — 14 Jul 2010

  Amazing stuff, an instant classic :)

• Steve — 9 Jun 2010

  Wow, it's really nice to see someone write another outstanding and playable game for the Atari 8-bit! I love this game, its a lot of fun and very engaging!

• Gwobby — 9 Jun 2010

  His Dark Majesty is one of the best Atari 8-bit games of all time. Fantastic gameplay, controls, performance, sound and graphics. It's like Archon has met Ultima III battles! Great work.