Tracing the Influence: Retraced Edition

Sherwood title screen (1993) 🔗


I know. I get it. If you're making a Robin Hood game, you'll probably end up borrowing from iconic Robin Hood movies here and there. But just digitizing Kevin Costner's mug from the poster of the most recent and most famous of them all, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, as the makers of this ZX Spectrum title from Slovakia did, might be a bit much. And this isn't even the only Robin Hood this game has stolen: The cover art features several more.

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