Turns out Christy Marx, creator of Jem and the Holograms and designer of acclaimed Sierra adventure games Conquests of Camelot and Conquests of the Longbow, also wrote the plot outline for an issue of Marvel's 1970s Conan comics credited to Roy Thomas:
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https://www.conanchronology.com/home/the-unsung-sword-of-conan-savage-sword-69-eye-of-the-sorcerer
Conquests of the Longbow made the list as #84
My adventure game, Conquests of the Longbow, is included in a list of retro games being offered on the Xbox game pass.
Too bad I don't make anything off it.
not an actual screenshot from Conquests of the Longbow, sadly
I had to make another trip to Redding and was glad that the temps had cooled down. Randy and I were in Redding a few days ago and it was 80 fucking degrees. In February. Trees are blossoming all over the place.
Today was to do a video interview for a documentary about Sierra On-Line. It’s a big project that was crowdfunded last year. It was an extremely nice crew of Canadians. On this swing through the western states, they’re interviewing me, Mark Crowe, Lori and Corey Cole, Jim Walls, and I’m not sure who else. It was a detailed and thorough interview and I look forward to seeing the final result.
#MarxToot #SierraOnLine #ConquestsOfCamelot #ConquestsOfTheLongbow
In fact, the way the foliage is drawn on that early map screen reminds me a lot of the Abbey map from Day 5/6.
An early screenshot of the map of Nottinghamshire in Sierra's Conquests of the Longbow, from InterAction vol. 4, #2, Summer 1991, compared with the version in the final game.
The Génération 4 scans. Notice as well the early Robin Hood sprite in the campfire scene (which is still in the game files, along with an alternate version where it's converted into a pose for Will Scarlet!)
The version of Marian's portrait above is earlier than the still WIP one seen in the scans below, from press builds given for review to French magazines Joystick (#22, Dec 1991) and Génération 4 (#39, also Dec 1991 - see next post).
Early screenshots of Conquests of the Longbow from InterAction vol. 5 no. 2 (Summer 1992), showing WIP versions of the character portraits for the false Scholar (Prince John's spy) at the Fair and of Maid Marian.
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