Feud (video game)
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Feud was an innovative 1987 computer game for the MSX
and ZX Spectrum
home computers, among others. The player takes on the role of the sorcerer Learic, cursed with aging, and must fight his evil twin Leanoric before his time runs out.
In some countries it was distributed as Halloween.
The only real enemy is Leanoric. To achieve your objective, you must collect many herbs scattered across the map and mix them in your cauldron to make offensive and defensive spells. You also have a compass that indicates Leanoric's location.
Leanoric, as a non-player character
, has to do the same thing, collecting herbs to mix in his cauldron before hunting you down in order to attack.
The spells varied from fireballs and lightning to invisibility and even turning peaceful villagers into zombies.
A version of the game was translated to Brazilian Portuguese
and is known for a bug that causes it to lock up when using the "sprites" spell, translated in this version to "devas".
MSX
MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...
and ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum
The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...
home computers, among others. The player takes on the role of the sorcerer Learic, cursed with aging, and must fight his evil twin Leanoric before his time runs out.
In some countries it was distributed as Halloween.
Story
Learic and Leanoric are twins and powerful sorcerers who hated each other. One day, Leanoric cast an aging curse on Learic. As Learic, you have only one day in which to defeat Leanoric before dying.Gameplay
The game found fame through its very unusual gameplay (for the time).The only real enemy is Leanoric. To achieve your objective, you must collect many herbs scattered across the map and mix them in your cauldron to make offensive and defensive spells. You also have a compass that indicates Leanoric's location.
Leanoric, as a non-player character
Non-player character
A non-player character , sometimes known as a non-person character or non-playable character, in a game is any fictional character not controlled by a player. In electronic games, this usually means a character controlled by the computer through artificial intelligence...
, has to do the same thing, collecting herbs to mix in his cauldron before hunting you down in order to attack.
The spells varied from fireballs and lightning to invisibility and even turning peaceful villagers into zombies.
A version of the game was translated to Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by most of the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan and Paraguay....
and is known for a bug that causes it to lock up when using the "sprites" spell, translated in this version to "devas".