The cinematic inspiration behind Heimdall's axe-throwing Commodore Amiga mini-game

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United Kingdom dreamkatcha
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Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yanW81KaRw


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Heimdall (1991)
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Amiga game developers, The 8th Day, drew inspiration from various Viking-oriented sources whist devising Heimdall. Eric the Viking, Terry Jones' 1989 fantasy-comedy starring Tim Robbins, was one of their more contemporary influences.

This scene was the foundation for their drunken axe-throwing/braid-cutting mini-game, itself a parody of the one seen in the 1958 Kirk Douglas swashbuckler, The Vikings.

You can read my retrospective review of Heimdall and interview with two of the key developers in ebook format at...

https://archive.org/details/heimdall-dreamkatcha-review



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Tags:
Heimdall
Amiga
Commodore
RPG
Terry Jones
Tim Robbins
Eartha Kitt
Mickey Rooney
John Cleese
Antony Sher
Imogen Stubbs
Tsutomu Sekine
1991
1989
Core
The 8th Day
Jerr O'Carroll
Ged Keaveney
Dan Scott
A500 Mini


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