Black Magic (video game)
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Story

The evil wizard Zahgrim has turned the good wizard Aganar to stone, removed his six eyes, and placed them in different locations across the land so they may view the destruction being reaped.

Objective

The player's objective is to find the six eyeballs scattered across the land which are needed to pass the Blind Statue. Every time the player picks up one of the eyes, a new batch of monsters populates the land making travel more difficult.

Once the eyes are placed back in the Blind Statue's empty sockets, a message will appear explaining how to end Zahgrim's rule over the land once and for all. It is achieved by entering his castle, a wicked and difficult maze of traps and monsters.

Ranks

Every 4000 points, a new rank is awarded. There are four ranks: apprentice, wizard, sorcerer
Magician (fantasy)
A magician, mage, sorcerer, sorceress, wizard, enchanter, enchantress, thaumaturge or a person known under one of many other possible terms is someone who uses or practices magic that derives from supernatural or occult sources...

, necromancer. With each rank, the player also receives two new spells to help him or her advance through the game.

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1987 in Dragon
Dragon (magazine)
Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...

#124 by Hartley and Patricia Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers stated the "Certainly, this is one of the better games in the current crop of arcade/adventure games, as the tasks required to complete the quest are quite varied."
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