Defender of the Crown for Game Boy Advance
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Defender of the Crown
Online version of Defender of the Crown for Game Boy Advance. Defender of the Crown is a medieval strategy game with action interludes, designed by Kellyn Beeck and released for the Amiga in November 1986 as the very first title from Cinemaware. England in 1149 has lost its king and broken up into territories held by individual lords; the player picks one of four Saxon knights and sets out to unite the country under his own banner. On a turn-based map he hires troops and takes territories, and between turns he unhorses rivals at a jousting tournament, raids enemy castles by night, batters down walls with a siege catapult and rescues captured ladies, or calls in Robin Hood for help. Conversions followed for the PC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh, Apple IIgs, Amstrad CPC, NES, Philips CD-i and Commodore CDTV. A remaster subtitled The Legend Returns arrived in 2026 for the game's 40th anniversary.
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Game Boy Advance
Online emulated version of Defender of the Crown was originally developed for the Game Boy Advance (GBA), an 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was first released in Japan on March 21, 2001. The GBA is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles. The original model does not have an illuminated screen; Nintendo addressed that with the release of a redesigned model with a frontlit screen, the Game Boy Advance SP, in 2003. A newer revision of the redesign was released in 2005, with a backlit screen. The final redesign, the Game Boy Micro, was released in 2005. Backward compatibility for Game Boy and Game Boy Color games is provided by a custom 4.194/8.388 MHz 8080-based coprocessor.
With hardware performance comparable to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Game Boy Advance represents progress for sprite-based technology. The system's library includes platformers, SNES-like role-playing video games, and games ported from various 8-bit and 16-bit systems of the previous generations. This includes the Super Mario Advance series, as well as the system's backward compatibility with all earlier Game Boy titles. While most GBA games employ 2D graphics, developers have ambitiously designed some 3D GBA games that push the limits of the hardware, including first-person shooters like a port of Doom and racing games like GT Advance Championship Racing.