Knights of the Round

Video Game
1991
T

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Side-scrolling beat 'em up based loosely on the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Merlin then sends Arthur and his companions, Lancelot and Perceval, to overthrow the... Read allSide-scrolling beat 'em up based loosely on the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Merlin then sends Arthur and his companions, Lancelot and Perceval, to overthrow the evil king Garibaldi and to unite Britain.Side-scrolling beat 'em up based loosely on the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Merlin then sends Arthur and his companions, Lancelot and Perceval, to overthrow the evil king Garibaldi and to unite Britain.

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7.3/10

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Trivia
Knights of the Round for SNES is now the most expensive video game cartridge.

Quotes
Narrator: [In the original Arcade opening] It has been said that only the man who is destined to be the king can pull out the sacred sword Excalibur from the rock. But one day, Arthur, who had been training himself to be a knight, pulled out the sword and so this story begins...
Merlin: [Arthur holds up his sword and then meets Merlin in the next shot with his friends Lancelot, Perceval] Only the holy grail can release this world from attain the chaos. You should be able to find it because you were able to sacred sword. Help each other and find it, brave men!

Alternate versions
The 1991 original arcade version of Knights of the Round features many of the following for this game.
The Arcade version features high quality graphics, instrumental arcade rock music and has some voices.
The arcade has has many features not included in the SNES game, including an exclusive close up shot of Arthur's hands pulling up the Excalibur sword out of the stone
The Arcade allows for a 3 player mode option.
Some animation backgrounds in Level 2 show the battle with knights clashing swords.
Having the option to continue after the player dies. In the Arcade version you needed quarters to continue to play. The Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 for Playstation 2 and Xbox doesn't require quarters to play.
The player can ride the horse more often in Level 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7.
Every time the enemy gets hit by a weapon it shows orange blood effects.
Religious references like "Holy" and "Sacred" are used in the game.
When the tiger enemies gets knocked back by the player, the tigers genitals are briefly show which was unusual at the time before the ESRB rating was introduced in 1994.
The final boss Garibaldi on Level 7 is seen on his horse fighting the player, if he runs low on HPs, he will be fighting on foot.
The Arcade ending credits features 7 bosses with their Knight soldiers followed with the ending showing the sunset mountain scenery with the words Presented by Capcom and the word End added.

Connections
Edited into Capcom Classics Collection: Reloaded (2006)

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5/10

Generic beat-em-up

Another Golden Axe clone from Capcom, this time with a Medieval England twist as you play as either King Arthur, Lancelot, or Perceval and slash your way through eight or so repetitive levels to get the Holy Grail or whatever. This one is moderately notable for it's level-up feature in which your character becomes more powerful with each score goal reached. Other than that, the moves are very limited, the environments cannot be used to your advantage, and the enemies can be quite annoying. One of the faults of the genre is enemies hiding off-screen where you cannot reach them, which I suppose is done to sneakily save on memory and slow-down.

I finished this game just ten minutes ago and I am struggling to remember one thing about the levels, they were just so generic.