Nightshade

1985 (12/31/1985)

Nightshade is an action video game developed and published by Ultimate Play the Game. It was first released for the ZX Spectrum in 1985, and was then ported to the Amstrad CPC and BBC Micro later that year. It was also ported to the MSX exclusively in Japan in 1986. In the game, the player assumes the role of a knight who sets out to destroy four demons in a plague-infested village. The game features flip-screen and isometric gameplay, in similar vein to its predecessors, Knight Lore and Alien 8…