Targhan

Targhan
Developer(s)Silmarils
Publisher(s)Silmarils, Loriciel (Amstrad CPC and Atari ST)
Designer(s)Michel Pernot, Pascal Einsweiler
Artist(s)Peter Andrew Jones,
Writer(s)Christophe Fagot
Composer(s)Michel Jean Baillot
Platform(s)MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC (1990), Macintosh (1991)
Release1989
Genre(s)Hack and slash
Mode(s)Single-player

Targhan is a side-scrolling hack and slash action-adventure game developed and published for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST by Silmarils and released in 1989. Color Dreams had announced plans of NES and Genesis ports but these were never released.[1]

In 1996 an IBM PC CD-ROM re-release was published under Action Sixteen.[2]

The character Targhan is also a playable character in the Ishar series.

The cover features an illustration by Peter Andrew Jones.[3]

  1. ^ "Leaflet" (PDF). Color Dreams - Arcade Quality Video Games For Play On SEGA® GENESIS®. Sega. 1990. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-12-05. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
  2. ^ "Targhan MS-DOS CD-ROM re-release". Software Clearance Bin. Internet Archive.
  3. ^ Game Manual