The Black Cauldron is inserted in the ChestTweetNews ID: 116 Date: 2010-10-12 Source: Sierra Chest
The Black Cauldron was originally written in 1965 by Lloyd Alexander, as the second book of his five-part fantasy novel series "The Chronicles of Prydain". In 1985 Disney turned it into an animated movie with a simplified storyline. "The Black Cauldron" was the last of the pre-Michael Eisner Disney animated feature-length movies. Disney had no software developers back then and had seen Al Lowe's very early game, Troll's Tale. They asked him to do a movie spin-off using a simplified interface in order to make it more accessible for children. Instead of using a text parser, the character is controlled with 4 function keys: to select, use, do or look. They gave Al Lowe complete access to the original hand-painted backgrounds, the original Elmer Bernstein score, even the original animation cells, which were still literally lying in heaps, before being sent off to the dump! (Eisner fixed that tradition quickly!). The Black Cauldron used Sierra's AGI engine and EGA or older graphics. See the game here.
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