That title (certainly using the same name) was released on Nintendo’s NES as well as on Game Boy in ‘91/’92. …so, “Prince of Thieves” was extremely profitable back in 1991, nevertheless there was only one game, which made use of the lucrative license. But after this streak of success, his production of the post-apocalyptic thriller “Waterworld” became a financial disaster and Kevin Costner’s career went downhill – but that’s another story… “JFK”, “Perfect World” or most notably “The Bodyguard”) was a capital hit. However, after the multi-award-winning epic Western “Dances with Wolves” Costner could do whatever he wanted to do each of the following films (e.g. Rumour has it, that in Robin’s homeland, the movie made everyone laugh, because of Costner’s American accent. The latter was a huge success at the box office – especially in England. The first one was the simply titled “Robin Hood” (starring Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman and Jürgen Prochnow), which was an epic flop the other one was “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” (starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman and Alan Rickman). Particularly in 1991 there seems to be an omnipresent “Robin Hood” hype: Not just one, but two motion pictures were shown in cinemas around the world. Just like Robin Hood’s famous predecessor King Arthur, also the noble outlaw of Sherwood Forest enjoys a great popularity in worldwide media, like books, films, computer/video and even board games. But I don't want to put the cart before the horse, so let’s start with the original release of this adventure… on PC… In case of the two “Conquests…” games by designer Christy Marx, which deal with the heroes of the British mythology, the first part, “Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail”, is the good side, whereas its sequel, “Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood”, represents the bad side - well, at least in terms of the Amiga version. As the saying goes, every coin has two sides: A good one and a bad one.
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