Disney, impressed with Al Lowe‘s educational adventure Troll’s Tale, from 1983, invited him to design an intuitive kids adventure game based on its 1985 movie The Black Cauldron.
Artist Mark Crowe, who later would come to work with Lowe on his first Leisure Suit Larry title, created the beautiful and stylish graphics.
The Black Cauldron was released in 1986 and became the last title in the joint venture between Disney and Sierra. Following the departure, The Walt Disney Company, in 1988, incorporated Walt Disney Computer Software, Inc. as a subsidiary. Primarily to have third-party developers designing games based on the company’s existing portfolio.
Along with The Dark Crystal, The Black Cauldron remains one of the only adventure games by Sierra to be based on a movie license.
To make The Black Cauldron more accessible and enjoyable for kids, the classic text parser was removed and instead employed the function keys to perform various actions.
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I’m interested in this sealed black cauldron game? Can you sell me one ? Pls reply
Hi there
Sorry, they are not for sale, these are part of my beloved Sierra collection and hopefully, they will stay with me for a long time. I might even have an extra-large coffin made…
hey I don’t know how much these go for but I came across a early version of this in a floppy disk format never used in the box and the date on the box is 1985 if this is something someone is interested please contact me on here and I’ll check every so often and see if someone has responded
thanks!
Hi Thomas
Thanks for posting. Such a great item in any Sierra collection.
If you’re able to take a few photos, I would love to see it – you can write me at retro365er@gmail.com.
Best
Ernst