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Drakkhen
The logo for Drakkhen.
Developer(s)Infogrames, Kemco
Publisher(s)Infogrames, Kemco
Year introduced1984
Genre(s)RPG

The first Drakkhen was developed in France by Infogrames. The sequel Drakkhen II: Dragon View was developed in Japan by Kemco. Subsequently, the two games are very different from each other. In fact, many reviews alternatively praise one and pan the other one.

Precursors[edit]

Drakkhen draws clear inspiration from an earlier French title by Infogrames.

Released in 1984 in Europe only, Mandragore (French for Mandrake) is a precursor of Drakkhen. It features a similar game structure, with an overworld surface connecting several castles; the latter are navigated room-by-room and rendered in an axonometric perspective. The player controls a party of four adventurers belonging to four different classes. The Commodore 64 port was localized in English.

Oméga, planète invisible[1] (French for Omega: Invisible Planet ) is a 1986 science-fiction game that uses the same engine and gameplay of Mandragore. This game was released in France and Germany (as Omega, der geheime Planet[2]), but no English translation exists.

Phalsberg (1986) was developed and published by Ère Informatique, instead of Infogrames. It is considered a spiritual sequel to Mandragore. An English version exists.

  1. French titles are written in sentence case.
  2. German titles are written in sentence case, but in German all nouns are always capitalized.

Games[edit]

Title Year Systems Publisher Setting
Mandragore
Mandrake
1984 Apple II, Amstrad CPC, Thomson TO7, MSX
Commodore 64
Infogrames Fantasy
Oméga, planète invisible
Omega: Invisible Planet
1986 Amstrad CPC, Thomson TO7 Infogrames Science-fiction
Phalsberg 1986 Commodore 64 Ère Informatique Fantasy
Drakkhen 1989 Atari ST, Amiga, DOS, X68000
NEC PC-9801
SNES
Infogrames
Kemco (SNES)
Fantasy
Drakkhen II: Dragon View 1994 SNES Kemco Fantasy

Pages in category "Drakkhen"

The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.