Captain Blood

Exxos released Captain Blood for PC, Amiga and Atari ST in 1988. Captain Blood is a peculiar science fiction game developed by french ERE Informatique which defies genres: it's part adventure, part space exploration, part simulation.

Rating: 3.67

(21 votes)

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Genre:

adventure / action adventure

system:

DOS

released:

1988

publisher:

Exxos

developer:

ERE Informatique

designers:

Didier Bouchon, Philippe Ulrich

view:

1st person, 2D

keywords:

science fiction, space

Downloads for Captain Blood

Download Captain Blood Manual

Trouble running this game? Check out the F.A.Q.

Screenshots

Screenshots were taken by Abandonware DOS.

YouTube video courtesy of Squakenet.com.

Additional info

Facts, trivia and collector's notes are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. These texts use material from this Wikipedia article.

The title tune is a stripped down version of "Ethnicolor" by Jean Michel Jarre.

It was followed by the sequel Commander Blood in 1994 and later by Big Bug Bang in 1997, a French-only release.

The titular character of the game is a 1980s video game designer, Bob Morlock, who had picked "Captain Blood" as a nickname in tribute to the film starring Errol Flynn of the same name. Morlock develops a new video game about aliens and space travel. While testing for the first time his new project, he becomes warped inside the spaceship of the very game he had designed.

players: single player

input: joystick, keyboard, mouse

distribution: 3,5 floppy disk, 5,25 floppy disk

graphics: CGA, EGA

sound: PC speaker

Abandonware DOS popularity: low

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