Erik

Erik The Viking!

Erik is a peaceful Viking who keeps himself to himself and bothers nobody. Unfortunately, that evil trickster god, Loki, isn't too pleased about Erik choosing a pacifistic lifestyle over one of pillaging, so he casts a spell and turns the world rotten. Erik must travel to these infested lands and battle sadistic evil before returning home. Wow, the problems that these computer characters must face daily... It's just not fair, is it?

Atlantis Software released Erik in 1992. It is a vertically scrolling platformer with dozens of levels spread over four worlds. Of course, each contains a fair few baddies, cool traps, and scary end-of-level bosses. The graphics are cute and cuddly, with nice detail and super smooth scrolling, with raspy samples for sounds. However, the shooting sound effect will grate after a while - we need this hacked by someone...

A simple platformer, which happens to be tremendously entertaining and challenging. I loved it!!

Floppy disks can be found at AtariMania.

Klaz has a fantastic hard disk version!