Knightmare (1987)

Knightmare is an arcade adventure game released in 1987 for the ZX Spectrum 48K. It was published by Activision and developed by a team including Mevlüt Dinç, Jonathan P. Dean, E.M. Dean, Nick Cooke, and Focus Creative Enterprises Ltd.

The game is based on the ITV television show and supports a single player. It features compatibility with Kempston and Interface 2 joysticks and was released as a flippy disc for multi-machine distribution.

The original price for the cassette was £9.99. The game was also made available on other platforms, including Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and Atari ST.

The game holds an average magazine score of 80.25%. Sinclair User awarded it a 10/10 rating and the "Sinclair User Classic" title, while other reviews included a 62% from Crash and a 7/10 from Your Sinclair.

In Russia, the game gained recognition through POKE-code listings in magazines and a detailed walkthrough in the Adventurer electronic publication. There are seven distinct TR-DOS adaptations available, alongside cracked cassette versions by crackers such as SAN-SAN and Klav.