1987 - THE PAWN by Magnetic Scrolls/Rainbird Software

[ComSoft6128]

In this video I have a partial (roughly 25%) walkthrough of the game using the solution provided by Kukulcan at CPCPOWER. 
So with the EXACT solution this takes 21 minutes - imagine how long the full game would take when all you had/have is the manual!

Gripe - the in-game graphics (made using NEOchrome on the Atari ST and then converted to other home computers) ) are good but even in 1987 the loading screen could have been improved. 
A nice touch is the ability to scroll the graphics up/down using the cursor keys at any time thereby increasing the text area - useful if you forget your last few actions.
Another nice touch is the option to scroll through the palette to select a text colour that suits you - especially useful when you could be playing this for hours.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTnZm1Yb-Ao


Wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pawn


Reviews:
https://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/the_pawn.htm
https://msmemorial.if-legends.org/articles.htm/acu0487.php
https://archive.org/details/amstrad-action-019/page/n75/mode/2up
http://www.cpcgamereviews.com/p/index3.html


Other links:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/cpc/pawn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_Scrolls
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomsoft#Rainbird
https://www.magneticscrolls.info/emu/amstradcpc.php
https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/magnetic-scrolls/info/msfact.txt
https://cpcrulez.fr/games-company-firebird_s_fortunes.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEOchrome


Not emulated - original hardware and software.
Please note that  the aspect ratio for this YouTube video is 16:9 but the CPC monitor
has an aspect ratio of 4:3 so you may wish to adjust your viewing device accordingly.

[Gryzor]

Nice vid