1987

Karnov

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Shooter Adventure Platform Music

Mac Arcade DOS Amstrad CPC Commodore C64/128/MAX ZX Spectrum

Developer: Data East

Publisher: Electric Dreams Software

Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer

Themes Action, Fantasy, Science fiction

Perspective Side view, Text

Summary

Karnov is a 1987 platform arcade game. It is the debut of Data East's mascot of the same name. After Data East became defunct due to bankruptcy in 2003, Paon, a company comprising former Data East staff, acquired the rights to Karnov, along with multiple other Data East games. In the game, players take control of the title character Jinborov Karnovski, or "Karnov" for short. Karnov is a strongman popularly illustrated as being from an unspecified part of the Soviet Union's Central Asian republics as shown on the original arcade flyer and again in Karnov's Revenge.