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God of Thunder

DOS - 1993

God of Thunder is a superb Zelda-style puzzle game by Adept Software, a little known development group.

Ron Davis led the programming team, and Jason Blochowiak (of Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D fame) helped out with programming. As the tale goes, your father, Odin, is the ruler of all the land. But, every few thousand years, he must enter in Odinsleep to regain and recharge his powers. While in Odinsleep, your evil twin brother, Loki, takes over the land. With Odin able to communicate with you but still unenerigized from Odinsleep, you, Thor, are summoned to destroy Loki and his evil cronies and reclaim the land in the name of Odin using this magic hammer that magically returns to you whenever you throw it.

The graphics are primitive for that time, especially when games that are 5 years older than itself wipe it out (Monkey Island comes to mind) but the frantic puzzles and gameplay are enough to keep even the most experienced puzzlers stumped. Another slight problem is that the AI could have been a little better (For example, if you walk ahead of a guard, he'll fire arrows at you, but he never stops walking his patrol to find you) but other than that, this is a fantastic game that console fans will find quite familiar.

Recommended, especially to fans of Jetpack and Bomberman games. Two thumbs up!

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

Luuk S 02 Jun. 2019
Top comment

The full version should be downloadable for free here imho; the original website also offers it freely: http://www.adeptsoftware.com/got/

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Zax 02 Apr. 2019

Can't get it to work either. Steam gives an error.

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CS10 20 Mar. 2018

Used to play this game as an 8 year old and absolutely loved it and was struggling to remember the name of it until I found this site!

Will give it another go. Brings back so many memories!

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Smeredith 12 Feb. 2018

This doesn't open after I download it. I have DOS version 0.74 but it also doesn't work on 0.73 either. Pls help

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young chris aka chris young 12 Aug. 2016

Wherr is jetpack and Crystal caves at?

2
Liam 13 Mar. 2015

cd\Mania2 (Enter)
Mania2 (Enter)

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hickz 19 Dec. 2014

YES, @jenkins i had that orange cd as well, it was called mania 21 or something

0
kentauros 10 Jul. 2014

There is my childhood! I finally found it :,)

2
Jenkins 01 Jun. 2014

I spent so much time looking for this game! It was on an orange disk that had a bunch of other games. What was it called again? Thanks for the add :)

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indstr 11 Feb. 2014

Ha, this game is awesome... It was like the PC version of Zelda. Great game, great memories.

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Omegalore 24 Oct. 2013

Wondered what the name of this was. Tis been ages.

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2drui 04 Aug. 2013

Thanks!

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Savage Oatmeal 30 Jun. 2013

Thig game is so much fun!

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commodore amigo 07 Jun. 2013

I remembered from kid's years the game about a Viking, going under the ground and killing spiders. It took me 17 years to find it!

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Celldrax 18 Jun. 2012

Oh man, I loved this game as a kid.

*manly tear*

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Downloads

DOS version
v1.1
United Kingdom English
1 MB

Extras

Manual Manual 1
Extra file
DOS 284 KB English English

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