Empire of Karn

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Empire of Karn
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Developer(s) Interceptor Software
Publisher(s) Interceptor Software
Designer(s) Ian Gray
Platform(s) Commodore 64
Release
Genre(s) Adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

Empire of Karn is an adventure game released for the Commodore 64 in 1985 by Interceptor Software. [1] It's a sequel to The Heroes Of Karn from 1983. It was written by Ian Gray with music and graphics by Chris Cox. [2]

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An Amstrad CPC port was never published. [3]

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References

  1. "Empire of Karn", C+VG , Future Publishing (43): 112–113, May 1985
  2. Empire of Karn at Lemon 64
  3. Empire of Karn at SpectrumComputing.co.uk