Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer is a series of point-and-click adventure games created by Adventure Soft. The series follows the adventures of an unwilling hero of the same name. The game has a fantasy setting and is a comedy. more...
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The first two games are often compared with the Monkey Island series in terms of style and humour, and the Terry Pratchett Discworld novels and derivative games.
Both the first and the second episodes are playable with ScummVM.
About Simon
Simon the Sorcerer is a teenager from our world. He is transported into a fantasy world as a sorcerer dressed in a cloak and pointy hat; his cloak and hat are purple in the first game, but change to red in the second and third game. He must use his logic and magical skills to solve puzzles as he progresses through the games.
Simon is extremely rude and insults everyone in his way. This tends to interfere with the success of his quests, forcing him to go to ridiculous lengths in order to finish his adventures. Simon breaks the fourth wall with his comments about adventure games.
Simon the Sorcerer
Simon the Sorcerer was released by Adventure Soft in 1993. The story begins with the protagonist, Simon, as an ordinary teenager. His dog, "Chippy", discovers a chest in the loft of his house containing a spellbook titled "Ye Olde Spellbooke". Simon throws the book onto the floor, but a portal opens above it. The dog goes through the portal and Simon follows.
After entering the portal, Simon finds himself in another world. After escaping from some trolls, he discovers that he has been brought on a quest to rescue the wizard Calypso from the evil sorcerer Sordid.
The game includes parodies of various popular books and fairy tales, including Rapunzel, The Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, Jack and the Beanstalk and the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Simon is voiced in this game by Chris Barrie, well-known at the time for his roles in Red Dwarf and The Brittas Empire.
Available versions
Several different versions of this game were created. For the Amiga, the AGA A1200 version boasting 256-colour graphics was available on 9 double-density floppy disks. Shortly afterwards, a 32-colour Amiga 500 edition was created so that any Amiga could play it, and finally a CD32 version was released on CD with 256-colour graphics and voice acting. This was the first Amiga adventure game to feature full voice acting, but only on the CD version.
The game was also released for IBM PC compatibles under MS-DOS and later re-released to run on Windows 95 using DirectX. A 256-colour version of the game was released for the Acorn RISC OS platform on floppy disk, with a CD version including voice acting released later.
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