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Time Lord
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Game + box: the cartridge and its box; the manual is not included. For the specifics, look to the photos — they're of this exact item. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
You have one year to save all of human history, and the clock is already running. Rare's Time Lord, published by Milton Bradley in 1990, casts you as a fortune hunter from the year 2999, hired by desperate scientists to chase the Drakkon into the past before these alien invaders can conquer Earth by rewriting its history.
The mission starts in a future research center and leaps to medieval England, the Wild West, the pirate-haunted Caribbean and World War II France, before a return to the future for the final showdown. You arrive in each era empty-handed and grab weapons from gift-wrapped packages, from swords and throwing knives to firearms and grenades depending on the period. Each level also demands five golden orbs to power the time machine, four hidden around the stage and the fifth surrendered by a Drakkon Lord boss, and some of them sit behind small puzzles, so every stage is as much a search as a fight.
The twist is the timer. Days tick away steadily on screen, giving you a little over half an hour of real time to finish the whole adventure, with no continues to fall back on. That pressure changes how you play: you learn routes, hunt orbs efficiently and stop wandering for its own sake. It is a rough-edged game, and some critics have found its action repetitive.
For Rare collectors, those rough edges are part of the fascination. Time Lord comes from the studio's prolific NES years, alongside Wizards & Warriors and R.C. Pro-Am, and its music is credited to David Wise, who went on to compose for Donkey Kong Country. A time-travel action game built around a running clock was an unusual idea in 1990, and this cartridge captures a studio still experimenting on Nintendo hardware, swinging for an ambitious concept before it found its signature style.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Milton Bradley
- Developer
- Rare
- Genre
- Platformer
- Players
- Single player
About the game
It is the year 2999, and warriors from the planet Drakkon are launching a savage attack on Earth. Their weapon: a powerful time travel device. Their objective: to control us by changing the course of our history. To win this war, we must meet the Drakkons on a unique and dangerous battleground: our own past! You are a fearless fortune-hunter, hired by desperate scientists for an experimental journey into the 4th dimension. Your code name is Time Lord. Your mission: blast into the past to save the present from certain doom! Battle the aliens in four historical time zones. Search for weapons sent back by the scientists - and decide when to use them. Solve puzzles to collect the mysterious Orbs that hold the secret of time travel. Be cautious yet quick, Time Lord. You have one short year to free history or be history! And the evil Drakkons have all the time in the world...
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