{"id":215,"date":"2009-11-12T22:17:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T20:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2009-11-12T22:17:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T20:17:35","slug":"amiga-game-intros-vol-2-lionheart-thalion-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/archives\/215","title":{"rendered":"Amiga Game Intros Vol. 2: Lionheart (Thalion, 1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s intro is from the platform game Lionheart, Thalion&#8217;s last game for the Amiga. The intro opens up with a long scrolling picture, created by my favourite pixel artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henknieborg.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Henk Nieborg<\/a>. After this part comes the real surprise &#8211; the camera moves into a dungeon in pseudo 3D! I wonder if they were reusing any of the code for the impressive first person parts in Ambermoon, which was also released in 1993. Of course, it&#8217;s just a bunch of scaled sprites, but still, it&#8217;s an unusual effect I think. After our bare-chested hero grabs the armor (do you see any parallels to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/archives\/208\" target=\"_self\">previous entry<\/a>?,) the intro switches to a side-view again and we see the in-game sprite getting onto his dragon friend. The remainder of the story is told in static pictures and text. Apart from the annoying pseudo-fantasy-orchestral music playing in the background, this is one of the most impressive intros that I know of on Amiga. I might be biased as a Nieborg fan, but I still think it holds up pretty well.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L1W2BRRnrE4&#038;hl=de_DE&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/L1W2BRRnrE4&#038;hl=de_DE&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s intro is from the platform game Lionheart, Thalion&#8217;s last game for the Amiga. The intro opens up with a long scrolling picture, created by my favourite pixel artist Henk Nieborg. After this part comes the real surprise &#8211; the camera moves into a dungeon in pseudo 3D! I wonder if they were reusing any &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/archives\/215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amiga Game Intros Vol. 2: Lionheart (Thalion, 1993)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-amiga-game-intros","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}