It is one of the console versions of a game that got that sort of… special treatment coin-up games could get, back then.
Uuuh… Crossbow?
Sega Master System I think…just can’t remember the name…
Edit: Captain Silver
It is!
The original coinup game was a frantic crazy thing.
Never made it past the SMS version’s 3rd level (which is actually just a remix of the second part of the first level of the arcade version. This is getting trickier than a Wonderboy chronology).
I love this little game.
I barely remember it, but from the moment you posted that pirate in the upper right I knew I had played it.
Banished?
Nope, much older.
Derby Stallion?
LOL, had to look that one up…no…
Mega-lo-mania? Actually it looks a bit too high res for that.
I swear the sprite is identical in pose to one in Monkey Island 1.
Actraiser?
Settlers 1?
Warlords, uh. . . 2?
Aight!!
@nijimeijer actually pointed my mistake out via PM, and I was gonna let him take it, but c’est le vie.
At work currently, so a screenshot will need to wait until tonight. Sorry, my dudes!
The best game in the Warlords series IMO. I even recognized it immediately when I saw the hints (I didn’t log on until after the second had been posted).
Yep…and the last game in the Warlords series IMO. (Although Battlecry wasn’t bad, it really wasn’t Warlords.)
There’s a Warlords IV! Proper turn-based sequel. Played it a lot with my son.