The Eidolon
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You control a mysterious 19th-century machine named "The Eidolon" through mysterious caves. Collect and create fireballs and encounter strange creatures like 'Greps', 'Biter Birds', 'Bottlenecks', 'Rotoflies', 'Puffer Birds' , and 'Guardian Dragons'. Each type of fireball you collect has different effects. For instance Blue fireballs freeze time, and green fireballs transform one monster into another type. A guardian dragon must be defeated at the end of each level.
Eidolon is one of the progenitors of the first-person shooter genre, with full pseudo-3D panoramic graphics. This was achieved with the use of Lucasfilm Games 3D fractal technology, also used in Rescue on Fractalus! and Koronis Rift.
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- アイドロン - Japanese spelling
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- Commodore Format
- February 1991 (Issue 5) - listed in the A to Z of Classic Games article (Great)
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Game added by ZZip.
ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC added by Kabushi. PC-88 added by Terok Nor. MSX added by Игги Друге.
Additional contributors: formercontrib, FatherJack, firefang9212, robMSX.
Game added February 7, 2006. Last modified February 20, 2024.