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Tir Na Nog,80's video game

  • 12-09-2011 3:00pm
    #1
    darkdubh
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    I have vague memories of playing this on the computer at secondary school.Not a lot happened in it from what i recall just Fionn Mcool(or was it Cuchullan?) walking endlessly through a landscape and occasionally coming across things that looked like chimpanzees that would headbutt him in the stomach.Anyone else play it?


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  • #2
    Welease
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    darkdubh wrote: »
    I have vague memories of playing this on the computer at primary school.Not a lot happened in it from what i recall just Fionn Mcool(or was it Cuchullan?) walking endlessly through a landscape and occasionally coming across things that looked like chimpanzees that would headbutt him in the stomach.Anyone else play it?

    Yep, it was published by Gargoyle Games in 1984.. I remember playing it on the Spectrum.. Dun Daragh was the other game in the series.

    Videos are up on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bj0_-vaO3I


  • #3
    darkdubh
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    Welease wrote: »
    Yep, it was published by Gargoyle Games in 1984.. I remember playing it on the Spectrum.. Dun Daragh was the other game in the series.

    Videos are up on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bj0_-vaO3I
    Wow that brings back memories.I'm still none the wiser as to what it was all about.


  • #4
    fryup
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    what was the purpose of this game? to promote the irish language?


  • #5
    Dotrel
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    Very good graphics for the time. The layout reminds me of the C64 version of Platoon.

    As to the point? Well what's the point of any game. I don't think it was trying to promote the Irish language. For instance they made a sequel of sorts called "Marsport" that was set in space rather than anything to do with Celtic Mythology.

    Read the wiki for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tir_Na_Nog_(video_game)


  • #6
    bullets
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    I knew this game as "Dun Daragh" rather than Tir Na Nog.
    Unless they are the same game or one is a sequel.
    (Did not know if the game was spelled Dun Darach or Dun Daragh)

    I don't remember the game play. My only memory of the game was how come the Irish Bloke walked with a hunch and had long hair (that was probably ginger)

    Had it on a green screen CPC 464 or else a ZX 48k spectrum.
    Just dont remember which either way it was a tape loader and possibly
    free with a magazine rather than a purchase.

    ~B


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  • #7
    Dotrel
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    Dun Darach is a prequel game to Tir Na Nog.


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