The player assumes the role of a Saxon (Wilfred of Ivanhoe, Cedric of Rotherwood, Geoffrey Longsword, or Wolfric the Wild) and tries to fight off the Norman hordes and wrestle for control of England. The fighting screen was one of the features added to the Atari ST version The game is set in England in 1149 during the Middle Ages where, following the death of the king, different factions are fighting for territorial control. Two remakes have been released: Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown in 2003 and Defender of the Crown: Heroes Live Forever in 2007. A sequel, Defender of the Crown II, was released in 1993 for the CDTV and Amiga CD32. Unofficially a ZX Spectrum version was also made. Later it was ported to the CDTV, CD-i and Atari Jaguar and conversions were made for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Amstrad CPC, Apple II GS and Intellivision. In 1987 it was ported to MS-DOS, the Atari ST and the Macintosh and a conversion was done for the Commodore 64. It was Cinemaware's first game, and was originally released for the Commodore Amiga in 1986, setting a new standard for graphic quality in home computer games. Defender of the Crown is a strategy computer game designed by Kellyn Beck.
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