Golden Axe - Select Player Screenshot

Golden Axe Old PC Game - More explanation screenshots

Golden Axe is one of the games, that the very first computer generation of people, have grown up with. It was very exciting to play it again to write this blog. It starts directly in windows, thought it is better to run it with DOS-Box to control the screen dimension. The game was first released only for consoles and played with coins and then released for 16 bit personal computers by Sega. After that, the game have many improved versions.

The default keys to play with the keyboard are:
6 or Right arrow - move right;
4 or Left arrow - move left;
8 or Up arrow - move up;
2 or Down arrow - move down;
5 - strike;
0 or Insert - jump;
7 - move north-west
9 -  move north-east
1 - move south-west
3 - move south-east
Right shift - cast magic.

Here is a gameplay movie:

Game Data:

Name: Golden Axe

Type: Action Games (AG), Arcade Games (AR), Adventure (ADV)

Genre: Fantasy (Yuria)

Platform: PC/DOS/Windows with DOS-Box

Year of Release: 1991 - More Info

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