| Legend of the Amazon Women |
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| Release Date | 1986 |
| Original Publisher | U.S. Gold Ltd (UK) |
| Min. Hardware | ZX-Spectrum 48K/128K |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Arcade Game: Beat-em-up/Solo |
| Max. Players | 1 |
| Original Price | £7.95 |
| Controls | Interface 2 (right), Kempston Joystick |
| Tie-in Licences | Legend of the Amazon Women (Software) from SilverTime Inc |
| Other Platforms | Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 |
| Average mag. score | 76.67% (3 reviews) |
| Martijn's WoS score | 58.5% (22 votes) |
Re-releases
| #1 - Aackosoft (Netherlands) | |||
| #2 - Dro Soft (Spain) | (1988) | ||
| #3 - Erbe Software S.A. (Spain) | (1986) | ||
| #4 - Mastertronic Ltd (UK) | (1986) |
Authors/Contributors
| Ed Ringler | - Game Design/Concept | ||
| Simon Ffinch [Simon F. Finch] (UK) | - Code, Game Design/Concept | ||
| Paul Kidby (UK) | - Inlay/Poster Art |
Credits
| Paul Kidby is the author for the covert art for the Mastertronic re-release. |
Remarks
| Simon recalls: "Ah one of the most infamous pieces of cover art - Quite apart from it being plain terrible (someone wrote at the time it should have been called "Leg end of the Amazon Women") it misrepresented the game in the most appalling way. I had no control over that and absolutely hated it. Whatever you may think of this game I was actually quite proud of what I managed to pull off technically here. There is actually a lot going on. The characters are build up from sets of legs, arms and a weapon that are shared, the leg in the back being drawn one pixel higher and at a different stage of the animation than the one in the front. A torso and Head that was unique to the player character and the amazons. This was to save memory. I was very tight on memory in general on this one. I even hid some data in the sky that cannot be seen because the pixel and background colours are the same." |
Main File Downloads
| Filename | Release | Machine | Scheme | Language | Comments | |
 | LegendOfTheAmazonWomen.tap.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K/128K | (???) | English | |
| LegendOfTheAmazonWomen.tzx.zip | Original | ZX-Spectrum 48K/128K | (None) | English | |
| LegendOfTheAmazonWomen(DroSoft).tzx.zip | #2 | ZX-Spectrum 48K/128K | (None) | English | |
| LegendOfTheAmazonWomen(ErbeSoftwareSA).tzx.zip | #3 | ZX-Spectrum 48K/128K | (None) | English | |
| LegendOfTheAmazonWomen(MastertronicPlus).tzx.zip | #4 | ZX-Spectrum 48K/128K | (None) | English |
Additional File Downloads
Magazine Reviews
| Crash | issue v.1 #29-1986/Jun | page 116 | - Review: 70% | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #45-1987/Oct | page 40 | - Review - Crash - Run It Again | |
| MicroHobby | issue #72-1986/Apr | page 12 | - Review - Nuevo | |
| Sinclair User | issue #51-1986/Jun | page 68 | - Review: 4/5 | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #7-1986/Jul | page 68 | - Review: 8/10 |
Magazine References
| Crash | issue v.1 #35-1986/Dec | page 116 | - Feature - Software advertising | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #59-1988/Dec | page 44 | - Hack/Poke | |
| MicroHobby | issue #78-1986/May | page 26 | - Feature - Justicieros | |
| Sinclair User | issue #48-1986/Mar | page 113 | - News/Note | |
| YS Smash Tips | issue 1988/Aug | page 3 | - Hack/Poke | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #6-1986/Jun | page 12 | - News/Note | |
| Your Sinclair | issue #28-1988/Apr | page 29 | - Hack/Poke |
Magazine Advertisements
| C&VG (Computer & Video Games) | issue #53-1986/Mar | page 34 | - Full-page ad | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #25-1986/Feb | page 2 | - Two-page ad | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #26-1986/Mar | page 78 | - Advert | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #26-1986/Mar | page 139 | - Full-page ad | |
| Crash | issue v.1 #27-1986/Apr | page 2 | - Advert | |
| Popular Computing Weekly | issue v.5 #10-1986/Mar/6 special "week#1" | page 48 | - Full-page ad | |
| Sinclair User | issue #47-1986/Feb | page 2 | - Two-page ad | |
| Sinclair User | issue #48-1986/Mar | page 24 | - Advert | |
| Sinclair User | issue #48-1986/Mar | page 63 | - Full-page ad |
Links
| Centre for Computing History | (Information - in English) | |
| MobyGames | (Information - in English) | |
| RZX Archive | (Information - in English) | |
| RZX Archive - YouTube | (Information - in English) | |
| Speccy Screenshot Maps | (Information - in English) | |
| The Tipshop | (Information - in English) | |
| UVL | (Information - in English) | |
| ZX Spectrum Reviews | (Magazine Reviews) | |
| Spectrum 2.0 | (User Reviews) | |
| The TZX Vault | (Software Preservation) | |
| ZX-Art | (Spectrum Graphics) | |
| ZXInfo | (ZXDB Front End) | |
| Every Game Going | (Multi-Platform Archive) | |
| New World Of Spectrum | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| Original World Of Spectrum | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| World Of Spectrum Classic | (Spectrum Archive) | |
| Spectrum Computing | (MAIN VIEW) |
