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THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE
THANATOS
PUBLISHER
Durell
AUTHOR
YEAR
1986
CATEGORY
Arcade
CONTROLS
Keyboard, Kempston, Cursor.
KEYS: Redefinable
Pause - P
INSTRUCTION
Having got fed up with being stereotyped as a nasty, greedy
creature, Thanatos the Dragon sets out to rescue the Sorceress
Eros and her belongings - spell books, cat and so on - from the
various castles in which they have been locked up.
Thanatos flaps across a left/right scrolling landscape which is
full of hazards - killer bees, two-headed dragons, sea serpents,
spiders, soldiers throwing spears and knights in armour. He can
however fry all of these with his (limited) amount of fire. He
can also pick his foes up with his talons and carry them aloft
to be used as "bombs" against other foes; it doesn't do a soldier
any good to be hit by a falling sea serpent!
Thanatos' life force is shown by a beating heart on the left and
a bag of blood (?) on the right of the screen represents his fire
supply. As he takes damage his heartbeat quickens and if he is
really badly injured, the heart turns blue. He can recover by
landing and taking a quick rest on the ground. If he runs out of
fire, he can refuel by eating a witch!
To win the game, Thanatos has to rescue Eros from one castle and
then take her on his back to other castles to recover various
objects. There are three castles on the easier levels and four
on the harder ones, and it keeps getting tougher...
SCORES RECEIVED
"An excellent and rather different arcade adventure." 93% (CRASH
#35, December 1986)
GENERAL FACTS
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