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In this game you control a Viking who is trying to find a treasure in a big castle. The castle is a big labyrinth and you have to find a lot of keys to open up doors to proceed. You can take several routes but you can not use the keys wrong because when you take a specific key a specific door will be patterned to show you that this is the door the key can be used on.

You can climb ladders, and you will meet guards which have to be avoided, because contact with these will make you lose a life. The guards do not use the ladders, they just walk left and right.

You will have to make your way around the labyrinth in the castle to find: a sword, a helmet, and a shield. When you have all these items you can open up the final door which leads to the treasure.

Originally this was a black and white monochrome game, even the loading screen was in black and white, and there was no sound.

This version have been modded by OHG and now there is two intros with AY music, new color menu screen which uses the castle from the loading screen, menu screen music, in game color, in game music, and if you have Covox there is also digital fx.

Quite a modification – Someone from OHG must really have liked this game!

This is really an improvement compared to the original release, but it is still just a very simple game, where all you have to do is climb ladders and collect keys you not can use wrong, and all the enemies looks the same and is just walking left and right without shooting or anything.

The game was published by Polish M.K. in 1987.

Rating:
Original 48k version: 63%
Unofficial 128k version: 78%

If you do not have Beta Disk / TR-dos this version can also run on ZX Spectrum Next and emulators. The game can run on a standard ZX Spectrum 128k with tape recorder if someone changes the loading routine to tape format.

48k tape: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/w/Wiking.tap.zip
128k Beta Disk / TR-dos: http://omegahg.com/gamesr/wiking.zip