Golden Axe

This has nearly picture-perfect graphics that are nearly on a par with those of the Genesis, but suffers from some slowdowns at times. Its sound is also limited to blips and chirps from the PC speaker and so music is not an option.

The year is either 1990 or 1991 as records vary.

Trivia from Mame.dk Golden Axe page
'The kanji [Japanese character] on the title screen actually reads 'Senpu', meaning 'Fighting Axe'. This is an example of 'gikun', where Japanese artists use the phonetic value of a character to determine the game's name, and not the meaning of the character itself.'

(Garrett) - # 2006

hardware: Color Graphics Adapter, Enhanced Graphics Adapter, Hercules Graphics Card, Multicolor Graphics Adapter, Tandy Graphics Adapter, Video Graphics Array, Joystick, AdLib SPU, PC speaker SPU, Sound Blaster SPU,

display: raster

The unpatched game will indeed run in Hercules graphics mode but will not run on a Hercules card. The game checks for a CGA card when loading and goes crazy when it doesn't find it. A patch will fix it.

zerothis # 2019-04-27 14:34:25

The game leaves an unused black band on the screen's right edge, this is likely an artifact of very basic platform conversion.

Sanguine # 2009-08-29 18:56:13

For 1-2 players simultaneously (cooperative or versus).

Sanguine # 2009-08-29 18:50:23

Supports EGA, 4 color CGA/MCGA/Tandy, Hercules, 16 color Tandy and VGA GPUs.

Sanguine # 2009-08-29 18:47:37

port of
Golden Axe (Arcade)

version of
Golden Axe (C64)
Golden Axe (Atari ST)
Golden Axe (Amstrad CPC)
Golden Axe (Amiga)
Golden Axe (Mega Drive)
Golden Axe (Master System)
Golden Axe (ZX Spectrum)
Golden Axe (PC Engine CD)